Step 3: Write your first posts (l)

 Who writes posts on class blogs?
  Only teacher post: Students read posts and comment. Teacher may link to student blogs.
  Only students post: Teacher assists, reads, offers feedback,etc.
  Teachers and students post: Students may earn the right to guest post or all students might have the chance to post.
Many teachers and educators with successful blogging programs use the following scaffolded approach:
Blog skills , 
  Post skills,
    Commenting skills,
1. Class blog teacher post. 2. Class blog students guest post. 3. Some students earn blogs. 4. All students have blogs.  https://www.theedublogger.comhttps://www.theedublogger.com
The progressive model As Kathleen Morris has used is as follows ( nearly as Jan Smith says):
“The big idea is to go slow to go fast. If you don’t lay the groundwork by building a community of trust, risk, support with your kids they fail big. Reading and commenting have to be the core, or else a  blog is just a digital bulletin board”.
First Post examples 
 What do you publish as posts on your class blog? Pretty much anything you want to share with students , families, or other educators you will publish as a post. What’s been happening in class, student work, assignments, homework information, documents —there’s so much you can share!
Check out The Edublogger’s Class Blog list for more examples on what the teachers post on their class blogs!
Integration blogging into your day
 The key is integration. No Teacher has time for add-ons, so it is a case of considering how can a blog enhance your  regular classroom program. Consider this:
Can some traditional analog task be replaced (and enhanced) with digital tasks in your classroom? or Can certain tasks be done better or more quickly with a blog?  Where can you slot blogging into the day? Also consider:
Can you add blogging to your literacy block instead of a traditional writing or reading task? Could a maths prompt be posted on the blog and students share their explanation through a comment or post? Could your inquiry or  social studies topic be explored through creating a post or multimedia for the blog? Could some physical displays of artwork and other creations become digital displays on the blog with rich reflections? Could traditional homework tasks become more meaningful blogging tasks? Eg. Working with a family member to share insights in a comment.
Once you get the hang of it , it becomes easier to understand how blogging can be integrated into your classes.