1. Blogging for the Real World By Jessica Barnhart

2. Revised Throughout the Years  Mentor Texts  Teacher Blog  Personal Blogs

3. Mentor Texts  Responding to media  Combining Student Life and writing  Responding to peers’ interests and posts  Creating Writing Prompts  One blog per class  Teacher blog

4. Link to Mentor Text http://14- 15phoenix3.blogspot.com/ http://14- 15phoenix3.blogspot.com/

5. Teacher Blog  Model Examples for students  Resources  How-to videos  Links to other websites  Interesting Information  Writing “in front of” the students

6. Link to Teacher blog http://missbarnhartwrites.blogspot. com/ http://missbarnhartwrites.blogspot. com/

7. Personal Blogs  Students writing on a regular basis  Allows them some choice in their topics  Combines their lives with writing  Formative Assessments  Online decorum  Authentic Audience

8. Requirements for Blog Posts  250 words  Title  Picture/Video  Link  Small Paragraphs or bullet points

9. Getting Started Confirm Profile Blogger Front Page http://www.blogger.com 1 of 2 screens

10. Create your blog!

11. Choose your title and web address don’t worry … you can change it later if you don’t like it Choose your title and web address don’t worry … you can change it later if you don’t like it If using for your classroom, make it something simple. You may have to add numbers or dashes to find an address that is available.

12. Congratulations! Now it’s time to start writing!

13. Type Away! Because this does not have a word count, some of my students (and even me sometimes) prefer to type in Google Docs and then copy/paste it over.

14. Tool Bars Media input and format Basic Text Features Insert a Link Insert a picture Insert a video Change Alignment Number Bullet Point Font Size Heading vs Body Bold Italics Underline Strikethrough Text color Highlight

15. Then What? Make sure it has a title. Publish Save Preview Close

16. Back to the dashboard … Side bar – very important! Overview

17. Closer look This is probably the most used toolbar on the site. Return to front page List of all posts. Go here to edit or update posts The Template is the place to change the look and layout of your blog The Settings Tab lets you change your title, address, timestamp, etc.

18. Blogger Front Page

19. Post List

20. Template

21. Setting

22. Impressive Student Blogs  http://scoutswritingclassbl og.blogspot.com/ http://scoutswritingclassbl og.blogspot.com/ http://scoutswritingclassbl og.blogspot.com/  http://kreisersblog.blogsp ot.com/ http://kreisersblog.blogsp ot.com/ http://kreisersblog.blogsp ot.com/  http://lwengerswritings.bl ogspot.com/ http://lwengerswritings.bl ogspot.com/ http://lwengerswritings.bl ogspot.com/  http://onthesetofdreaming.blogspot.com/ http://onthesetofdreaming.blogspot.com/ http://onthesetofdreaming.blogspot.com/

23. My Grading Method

24. Other opportunities  Blogging with other classrooms  Extending Mentor Text  Weekly Updates  More Collaboration

25. Other blogging platforms   https://wordpress.org/ https://wordpress.org/   https://wordpress.com https://wordpress.com   https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/   http://www.squarespace.com/ http://www.squarespace.com/   http://www.weebly.com/ http://www.weebly.com/   http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.typepad.com/   http://wardrobecms.com/ http://wardrobecms.com/   http://postach.io/site http://postach.io/site   https://medium.com/ https://medium.com/     Information on these platforms and more available here and herehere

26. My Contact Jessica_barnhart@pasd.us