USING BLOGS (AND OTHER PROGRAMS) TO ENHANCE

LITERACY

Brenda Trout and

Kelly McKayChatfield Elementary

Objective: You will come away withadditions to your technology tool box that you can use to enhanceyour classroom.

Outcome: You will be able to spend some time using various websites soyou can take the knowledge and usethe ones that will help enhance yourpractices and your students learning.

Blog How To Log on to Kidblog.org Click on create class Fill out the information to set up your

account Click on control panel to manage your

class Let’s look at the dashboard Let’s write a new post Let’s see what the kids have done What about comments? What do I want our page to look like?

Amazing Free Web ToolsSearch Website for interactive lessons using keywords, or refine your search.

http://www.readwritethink.org/http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/

For The Teacher

http://simplek12.com/tlc/classroom/