Activity Ideas
These ideas are sample lesson plans incorporating blogs, provided by ReadWriteThink. The detailed outlines act as good starting points for developing blog-based assignments.
Getting Started
A handout that provides a step-by-step procedure for starting a blog assignment. Also, space is provided for documentation of username and password. This sheet could be useful as a blog assignment sheet.
Blogtopia
This assignment can combine literature with a blogging exercise. The basis of this assignment deals with students reading utopian literature and creating blog posts detailing their own utopian societies, establishing the habits, practices, and organizing social structures that citizens will follow in their utopian societies.
Photo Voice
This assignment incorporates the visual capabilities of blogs. Students take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind their photos, and share the photos to find common themes. This lesson can be used as either a prewriting activity for essays, a stand alone assignment, or a reflective piece after a literature assignment.
Latino Poetry
This assignment uses blogging as a place for writing analyses of Latino poetry and responding to classmates' posts. The act of blogging encourages students to think carefully about their responses and to use good writing techniques.
Weekly Writer's Blog
This adaptation of the paper-based weekly writer's log challenges students to analyze the example writer’s blog entries before they begin the habit of writing their own weekly entries, which focus on the writing that they have done over the previous seven days. Some assignments may include to ask students to think about their progress on writing activities and to project how they will continue their work in the future.
Other Blogging Ideas
These search results provide a variety of blog-related lesson plans, worksheets, and instructions. From these resources, teachers can find and create ways to use blogs in their lesson plans.
Getting Started
A handout that provides a step-by-step procedure for starting a blog assignment. Also, space is provided for documentation of username and password. This sheet could be useful as a blog assignment sheet.
Blogtopia
This assignment can combine literature with a blogging exercise. The basis of this assignment deals with students reading utopian literature and creating blog posts detailing their own utopian societies, establishing the habits, practices, and organizing social structures that citizens will follow in their utopian societies.
Photo Voice
This assignment incorporates the visual capabilities of blogs. Students take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind their photos, and share the photos to find common themes. This lesson can be used as either a prewriting activity for essays, a stand alone assignment, or a reflective piece after a literature assignment.
Latino Poetry
This assignment uses blogging as a place for writing analyses of Latino poetry and responding to classmates' posts. The act of blogging encourages students to think carefully about their responses and to use good writing techniques.
Weekly Writer's Blog
This adaptation of the paper-based weekly writer's log challenges students to analyze the example writer’s blog entries before they begin the habit of writing their own weekly entries, which focus on the writing that they have done over the previous seven days. Some assignments may include to ask students to think about their progress on writing activities and to project how they will continue their work in the future.
Other Blogging Ideas
These search results provide a variety of blog-related lesson plans, worksheets, and instructions. From these resources, teachers can find and create ways to use blogs in their lesson plans.
