Friday, November 25, 2011

Student Blogging Guidelines

Kist (2010, p.37) offers the Snowball activity as a way to create an inclass (no tech) blogging experience leading to developing guidelines for bloggers.
Image: 'Snow ball'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11138469@N00/2436664340
After an exciting Friday afternoon snowball activity, class 701 generated the following:

Guidelines for Blogging 

and Commenting
  1. Write for your readers
  2. Use proper grammar and spelling
  3. Make sense
  4. Be polite
  5. Stay on topic
  6. Disagree respectfully

    The best moment was when the T.A. for a student who is visually impaired (and a blossoming writer) told me that the student had loved the activity and really "got it".

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