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=Blog=

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=How To Create a Primary Classroom Blog=
 * Using a Blog in the classroom:**

Teachers Can Use Google’s Blogger to Increase Parent Communication
[|Share Article] | [|Sep 2, 2008] [|Megan Sheakoski] Primary school teachers can use Blogger to create a classroom blog to share student news, upcoming events, and homework assignments with parents. The traditional elementary classroom newsletter jumps into the 21st century when teachers write a classroom blog. Teachers can use the blog, or web log, to share student work, communicate classroom news, and post homework assignments. Parents and students can sign in to the blog and be kept up-to-date with all the classroom happenings. Teachers can involve students in the blog by having them suggest and write daily posts and allowing them to choose photographs and artwork to share with their families. At home students can use the blog to check their assignments, look at the lunch menu, and go to educational websites. The teacher can go to a free blogging site, like Blogger, and sign up for an account. The [|Blogger website]takes you step-by-step through the set up process. After the account is created the teacher chooses a name for the blog and picks one of Blogger’s premade templates to fill in with the class’ information.
 * How to Start a Primary Classroom Blog**

Customize the Blog with Blogger's Gadgets
Teachers then can personalize their blog by adding classroom information to the header and gadgets to the sidebar. Using Blogger’s gadgets they can write a message to parents from the teacher, add polls and pictures, and link to their favorite educational websites. Teachers can even add an RSS feed with current, relevant [|primary school articles]and an "email me" link for parent questions.

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