Create a classroom blog. Show students how to interact on it, answer questions, add their ideas. Include pictures, student schedule, location of your wiki and more
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I am initiating a blog for my students. Should I add them as blog readers or blog authors? What’s the difference? I want them to use the blog to reply to posts and to post comments.
It depends if you want them to be able to post articles (that would be authors) or just respond to articles you post (that would be readers). Does that help?