Class+Blog

=Lesson: Using the Class Blog=

Goal:
Students will comment on our class blog to
 * journal student progress
 * comment on teacher posts
 * reflect on milestones of the project
 * evaluate project

//What is a BLOG? // Short for  ** WeB  ** **LOG ** An interactive, online personal commentary Tends to look like web pages Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order Readers may add comments to the blog, leading to a discussion

// Let's Look at some Familiar sites that are actually Blogs: //
Business: Commercial - [|Amazon.com] Multi-Media: Video - [|YouTube] Photo – [|Flickr] Social Networking: [|MySpace] [|FaceBook]

// Now let's Blog! // Your first task with our class blog is to make a comment. //**Please use your first name only// in your comments at all times.
 * 1) Click the link to our [|Class Blog for Grade 8 Social Studies]
 * 2) Read the teacher's posted article.
 * 3) Click on your class period, then click on your name.
 * 4) Log in with your Blog username and password
 * 5) Click the Article tab at the top.
 * 6) Type the article name- use **REFLECTION #1**
 * 7) Type your response into the comment box.
 * 8) Type the word verification, if there is one
 * 9) Click the Publish button.

Blog assignments:
After various points of research on this Holocaust project, your teacher will post a question on the class blog related to the events of the Holocaust or to your own research. Please write a thoughtful response of at least one grammatically correct paragraph as a comment to the post. You will post these comments to your own blog page within the class blog.

Final assignment:
At the end of this project, your final blog posting will be a reflection of the entire Holocaust unit, including what you learned, what aspects of the project were most interesting for you, and any suggestions for how we can improve this project for next year.

Link to our [|Class Blog for Grade 8 Social Studies]