1. Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community.

2. Advantages include:  Perfect tool to introduce blogs to your students  Easy to navigate interface  Easily generate usernames and passwords for students, teachers, administrators, and guests  Teachers able to edit and remove students' posts  Teachers control privacy

3. Go to http://kidblog.org : Click on “Click to Create a Class

4.  choose a password,  add a few details and you’re in.

5. The class name is the blog name, which becomes part of the URL for the class blog too. You’ll want to set up initially as one class, even if there’s smaller group projects within the class, since the default privacy level is for students to be able to see other classmate’s work. If they’re not in the same class, they won’t be able to see it (or you’ll need to change the privacy).

6. Blogs Setting: Click on the “Settings” tab, to setup your Blog. Click “Theme” tab to change the look of your Blog pages

7. Blogs Setting: Click “Posts” tab to change the Privacy so you:  Decide who may read posts  Set the post approval  Enable notifications  Enable tags

8. Blogs Setting: Click “Comments” tab to change the Privacy so you:  Decide who may leave comments on posts  Set the comments approval  Enable comments notifications

9. You’re limited to 200 kids per class, but it’s suggested that if you need more usernames you simply start a new class, add the new users to that and then invite them to the original class. You can easily keep adding classes every school year and importing the users from older classes. This gives the kids a little continuity, too. Add users: Click on the “Users” tab, to start adding your students.

10. Add users: Click “Add New Users” then start adding each student. Select “Student” in the Role field

11. Add users: Adding users can be done individually or as a bulk upload. The bulk upload involves creating a “.csv” file with just name and password. You can do this easily by using a spreadsheet with a column for name and a column for passwords, then exporting it as a.csv file. Once the users are added, they can log in and start writing straight away.

12. Add Groups: If you’ve got several groups of kids in the one class all working on different group projects, you’ll want to set up appropriate “Groups” each with relevant names. Click “Add Members” to add students in their groups

13. Once the groups are set up, kids viewing the blog can look at posts just by one person or filter to show just relevant groups. Click “Go to Class Blogs” to view your Blog and switch between groups and users

14. Click on Control Panel to use the Blog tools Click on All Blogs to see all students/groups blogs Click on My Blog to see your blog only Click on New Post to add a new post