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Website
Get Safe Online

Get Safe Online: Blogging

For Students 9th - 10th
Because blogs have become such a popular 21st century communication tool, they can sometimes be accessed with a price. This article teaches the risks of blogging as well as how to protect oneself.
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Graphic
Grammar Check

Grammar Check: 10 Common Blog Writing Mistakes (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
This infographic is provided to help students with writing a blog. This site is geared toward those who are keeping a personal blog and for those who are trying to attract followers and customers.
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Website
Other

Tech Learning: Introduction to Blogs and Blogging

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article introduces the concept of blogs, gives links to blogs that deal with topics in education, ideas for using blogs for student writing and information on setting up your own blog. After reading this article you should be able...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this series of lessons, young scholars learn the purpose of an electronic portfolio; use Google Blogger to create such a portfolio of their best work, including multimedia extensions as desired; and respond to each other's work online...
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Other

University of Wisconsin Stout: A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A rubric that can be used for assessing students' contributions to a blog.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hands, Hands, Hands

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The teacher will show pictures of six hands to students. (See attachment) After a brainstorming session, students will choose one hand that illustrates a particular story from their life. Then, students will write a two page narrative...
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten ways to incorporate social media to classroom instruction and writing initiatives.