Interactive Blogging, by Heather Birch

Interactive blogging 


  • does not purport to increase blog traffic exponentially or internationally; rather, it focuses on how to increase visits to the classroom blog by its most important readers--the students in that classroom, and their parents
  • interactive posts invite a specific response from the reader, as opposed to simply displaying content to be viewed
  • can draw readers, engage readers
  • gives readers a voice

  • can be designed to give teachers assessment of learning data
  • is a comfortable platform for student visitors who are at home in Web 2.0, where they are active responders, creators, and “likers,” as opposed to passive consumers 
  • gives students practice at the 21st century skill of sharing; as their work is viewed and responded to, students begin to understand and appreciate that their work has an authentic audience

One Way to Create an Interactive Blog

(if you do not already have a blog, try www.blogger.com)
  • consider the purpose of your blog
  • think of an idea for an interactive blog post that could enhance your classroom blog  Examples: Can students ask or answer a question, give an opinion, express a response, choose their favourite...
  • create a Google form, and embed it in a blog post (demonstrated in the following videos)

 How to Create a Google Form
How to Embed a Google Form in Blogger or Wordpress
How to Embed a Google Form in First Class


Tools for Creating Blog Content



  • Screencasting - Jing


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