Comments on: Creating RSS Content for Elementary via "+1 Mentor Blogs"?

By: Diane Quirk

Diane Quirk — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:09:00 +0000

I really love the idea of having cross grade level subscriptions to blogs. Excellent reading and writing integration. As a matter of fact,I have two teachers who are going to be starting blogs this week -brother and sister, 5th gr and 1st gr. We have many instances where older and younger grade levels have served as “book buddies” but blog buddies would be so much better and a good example to use when talking to teachers about the possibilities of blogging. Thanks!

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:04:00 +0000

excellent, thank you~

By: nbosch

nbosch — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:48:00 +0000

I heard from a third party that you were looking for RSS feed for elementary kiddos. I did the same search and found some options. Visit our blog site and click on news feeds and you’ll see what we are using. I usually check everyday and so far nothing too inappropriate has been fed to us. I feel very strongly that we have to be extra careful in the RSS content becasue we are making the choice to bring that info “in”. Our feeds have a “Blog-it” option which the kids can use to comment on articles. One of my 5th graders is blogging daily on the Word of the Day. I’m looking for Photo of the Day to include. David Warwick at 2 cents worth published an entry on some comments I made about my students’ blogging, you can check it out if interested. Let me know if you find anything else. http://areallydifferentplace.org