Blogs+5

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be exploring blogs. You can think of a blog as a type of online journal. People can blog about all sorts of different topics. We will use blogs in the classroom to share our thoughts and questions with one another on different topics that we will be covering in technology, your classroom, and as fifth graders. Our blogs will be safe. We will use our usernames and passwords and it will only be open to our class. That means that no one else on the Internet will be able to read what we post. Blogs are a great Web 2.0 tool and I hope you all enjoy using it!

Day 1: Let's discover what a blog is!

To find out more about blogs, we will watch this BrainPOP video with Tim and Moby. Click this link to access it.

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Think about this... Explain why you would choose a particular blog to share with others.

Day 2: To identify the purpose of and features of a blog by exploring a few examples

When we think about a blog's purpose we can think of what we know about author's purpose. Those people who write on blogs are called bloggers and blogger are authors!!! Think about the main reason's an author will write something.

Blog features are similar to text or book features. It is what you see, or the components of a blog. Let's take a look more closely at blog features though before we begin our hunt within the blogs listed below.

Common Blog Features



1. The first blog we will be visiting is called "Mundie Kids"

2. Next, let's explore "Kid's Book Review"

3. Finally, let's stop at Hagan's World of Awesome http://hagansworldofawesome.blogspot.com/

Day 3: Let's check out our own blogs!



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