Session 3: "Send a Problem" #3 - Invite to co-author or not?

• It seems a bit troublesome to get students to co-author my blog. They have to create their own blogging accounts before they can co-author my blog.
• Is there any way that does not require them to create any account first?

• Time and effort are needed to for the very first attempt to get the 'class' into the class blog. Hence, proper planning is necessary. After the first attempt, it should be much smoother.
• What's the purpose of getting the pupils to co-author the blog? What is the nature of the activity?
• Does the teacher need to monitor and edit the postings? or the postings are part of the series of assignments to be submitted?
• For Group Work: If the teacher has to be given the right to edit the blog, then he has to be the administer of the blog. That will mean the teacher will create a blog for each group and invite them to be members [like what you have experienced in Session 2]. If the blog is more for pupils to post their work while the teacher can give feedback to their posts (via comments), then we can leave the group to manage their own group blog.
• To start a class blog where pupils contribute to the class journal (eg. learning journey throughout the year), teacher will have to invite the pupils into the blog.
• If it's only meant for ad-hoc inputs triggered by the teacher, perhaps the usual way of capturing feedback via comments would suffice.
• If the intent to start pupils off with the habit of writing reflection and journal, it would be good to get them to start their own personal blog while the teacher can monitor the updates of their blogs (through a blog aggregator) or by creating a blogroll in the Teacher's blog.

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