Last Fall a number of teachers from my school attended a workshop on blogging with Sharon Davison, a Kindergarten teacher at the Allen Brook School in Williston, VT. We came away from her presentation convinced that we wanted our students blogging as well and soon all our third graders had their own active blogs. Not only did Sharon offer compelling reasons to blog with young students, she stepped us through how to set up the blogs and communicate with families so that they became completely comfortable having their children's writing online. Here is the slide show Saron used during her presentation and here is an an interview with Sharon about blogging with her students. Take a look. What do you think about students having blogs, especially young students? Can you think of any compelling reasons why you might want to have your own blog, or have your students blog?
