14 Steps to Meaningful Blogging

Wanna try blogging with your students, but you aren't sure how to start? Read this great article 14 Steps to Meaningful Blogging. Mrs. Ripp walks you through getting started in easy-to-follow steps.

1. Pick an easy platform
2. Teach how
3. Safety
4. Commenting
5. Start small
6. Involving parents
7. Connect with peers
8. #comments4kids
9. Visits others
10. Explore
11. NO grading!
12. Challenge them
13. Map connections
14. Time

Get all of the details in the full article.

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

                                                                                                                         ~ Maria Montessori

James 1:2-4 ESV 

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

I humbly thank my wonderful family for their support in all that I do. Robert Robbie Cowan, Robert Drew Andrew Cowan, and Hunter Cowan Hartselle, Decatur, AL