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Why Blog with your students?

5 Reasons Your Students Should Blog
Why Should Students Blog – My Top 10
Reporting in a Digital Age

Examples of ePortfolio Student Blogs 

Mrs. Cassidy's Class (Kindergarten) 
Mrs. Holden's Class (Gr. 4) 
Jaquelyn’s ePortfolio
Brooke’s Blog
The Learning Hub (Jr. High)
The Learning Hub (High School)

Examples of Teacher Professional Blogs 

Mrs. Cassidy's Professional Blog
My Professional Blog

Platforms

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Edublogs
Cost: Free for teacher blog & $39.95/year to add student accounts.
Pros: ability to moderate posts & comments, wide variety of templates & many options to personalize. With Campus Press blogs can follow students year to year.

Edublogs YouTube Channel
Edublogs User Guide
Mobile Blogging info
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Kidblog
Cost: $29/year
Pros: moderate posts & comments, easy simple setup and user friendly dashboard.

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Freshgrade
Pros: separate apps for students, parents and teacher.  Teacher app lets you easily record audio, video and pictures and add them to the portfolio in seconds. Parents alerts when portfolio is updated.


Useful links

Copyright:
2Learn- copyright & teaching the basics

Images:
The Noun Project– a community building icons that anyone can understand
Pixabay– Free images
Unsplash - beautiful free photos
Compfight– A Flickr Search Tool
Photos For Class – The quick and safe way to find and cite images for class!
Pics4Learning – Free photos for education
27 Superb Sites With Royalty Free Stock Images For Commercial Use
Google Image Search Adds Usage Rights to Search Tools
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Music:
Incompetech– royalty free music.  Search by genre or feel.
Soundation– online music studio with recording, effects, virtual instruments and over 700 free loops and sounds
Audio Nautix – Online collection created by Jason Shaw.
FMA– Free Music Archive.  Search by genre.
Jamendo– royalty free music downloads

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  • Portfolio
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    • Digital Citizenship
    • ePortfolios
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    • Mobile Learning
    • Twitter
    • Web Tools