Blogging+Projects

**Connecting your blog to the outside world** flat Having a focus, challenging your students to use web 2.0 tools creatively, making connections locally, nationally and globally, creating, commenting via your class blog is key to successful blogging. Below are ways to challenge your students and make those collaborative connections! =QuadBlogging = Quadblogging is a way of connecting your students to other students around the world via blogging. Sign up at www.quadblogging.net media type="custom" key="15073986" =Edublog - Student Blogging Challenge = 

The Student Blogging Challenge runs twice yearly. A new Challenge starts March and September, each year. It is made up of a series of 10 weekly tasks all designed to improve blogging and commenting skills while connecting students with a global audience. The Challenge is open to both class blogs and to individual student bloggers from all over the world and of all ages – blogs don’t need to be hosted by Edublogs to participate! Participants can complete as many of the tasks as they like and in any order.  (**Extract from the Edublog Webpage** www.studentchallenge.edublogs.org)