Last week in our afternoon session, I instructed the students on how to set up their personal blogs. We used this site (www.wordpress.com) because my tech class had discussed the educational benefits of this blog site. All 15 students successfully set up their own personal blogs. Some interesting things I noticed during the period:

1) we used student initials instead of names so that the students remained mostly annonymous, but this allowed easy access for viewing the blogs for myself and other teachers

2) some students did not have personal email addresses, which is requested when registering for a blog, but we found that typing arbitrary letters followed by “@google.com” worked

3) I am not sure how to comment on the students’ blogs and have it immediately show up for them rather than be emailed for them to approve