Approving Blogs

Approving blogs for publication can be a tedious process. Some teachers will use the approval feature( such as the one in Classblogmeister) to ensure that their students do not inadvertently have something published that discloses personal information about them, their families, or their classmates. I believe that was the original intent of the approval process being enabled.

I worked with a teacher in our district who used the approval tool for a different reason. He wanted to review the content in much the same way that he would review any other piece of writing done by his students. His commitment to rapidly reviewing his student blogs meant that when a student checked in the following day or blogging period, if their blog was not up for public review, then there was something that needed further editing. This lead to more collaboration with peers or with the teacher to review the work to get it to a stage that it was ready for the outside world.

I thought that was a pretty good use of the review / approval tool, but it does rely on the teacher being as committed to the student blog as the student.

This link is a tutorial for setting up a Classblogmeister blog for a class.

Using blogs in Education

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Sharing and collaborating with one another is the most important feature of the blogging activity, which enables blogger participants to achieve their purposes in a meaningful way.

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