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This morning I attended the chat with Anne Davis about how to use blogs in the classroom on Tapped In. It was interesting and informative. The hour really went by fast! I had participated in chats before but not on Tapped In, although I had heard a lot about it.
These are some of the things I learned and that I can use as I start to use a blog with a class, in no particular order (and I'll get to practice making bullets):<>

• Start with a class blog, making writing the reason for the blog.
  
• Ask questions that will prompt students to tell their thoughts.
  
• Another idea was to have a guest blogger. Students could guess who it is, or they could ask the guest questions. Another idea was to blog with another class. This way there would be an audience.
  
• I asked a question about student email addresses and she said she uses inactive ones, but that the don't need to have them.
  
• Put a disclaimer on the blog saying that the student blogs will not be perfect and thosse reaading them should be respectful and encourage the students' writing.
  

On another note, my last link looks right, even in properties, but it links to Microsoft. I have no idea why. Guess I still have some work to do on creating links.

I'm going to try a link again here. The URL is kind of long, but here goes. It is to an article entitled " Blogger Influence Raises Ethical Questions" . It is about whether blogs are becoming a new kind of journalism or whether they remain personal opinions.
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