The Kidblog Development team is pleased to announce the release of three new themes for your class blogs.  

Kidblog Bluebird

Light-colored with a tall header, based on an original design by Randa Clay.

Kidblog Notepad

Notepad theme with dynamic, organic background. Based on original design by Evan Eckard and Smashing Magazine.

Kidblog Waterlily

Dark background with prominent waterlily featured in header. Based on original theme by Lisa Sabin-Wilson.

 

 

We’re committed to providing the most teacher- and student-friendly blogging platform available. We only release themes after a rigorous testing procedure to ensure that your students have a seamless blogging experience. Despite this testing process, if you do notice issues when using one of the new themes, please email support@kidblog.org and we’ll take care of it right away.  

Theme development is a high priority for us, so stay tuned for more options coming soon. Enjoy the new look of your class blogs!

-The Kidblog Development Team

Kidblog.org was featured today in a story on social media in schools. Kidblog.org co-founder, Matt Hardy, was interviewed for the story. He related some of his personal stories introducing blogging to his classroom in 2007. 

“Students aren’t just writing on a piece of paper that gets handed to the teacher and maybe a smiley face or some comments get put on it,” he says. “Blogging was a way to get students into that mode where, ‘Hey, I’m writing this not just for an assignment, not just for a teacher, but my friend will see it and maybe even other people [will] stumble across it.’ So there’s power in that.”

Seventh grade teacher, Elizabeth Delmatoff, used social media in her classroom as a experiment in her Portland, OR. “For the first time in its history, the school met its adequate yearly progress goal for absenteeism.” Delmatoff does’t believe that the blogging is solely responsible for the increase, but it seemed to play a significant role in her class results.