Step 6: Help parents and students (V)

20. Do not forget Grandparents and other family members 
 Your ready-made audience doesn’t only consist of parents, of course. There may be other family members, including grandparents, who would love to become part of your blogging community but just need guidance or encouragement.
 Linda Yollis has had great success with some grandparents becoming particularly interested in her class blog. Bubble,  a 92 year old great-grandmother guest posted on her blog and Nonno, an Italian grandfather was once a regular contributor.Grandparents blogging
The role these community members played in the students’ development was priceless.
21. Set up an Email subscription 
  Add an email subscription widget so parents can subscribe for notification of new posts. Our tutorial walks  you through the simple set up process.
Note: This feature is only available on Pro blogs and CampusPress blogs.
Get parents involved infographic
 This infographic might be handy to help you come up with ideas throughout the school year. Perhaps you have a colleague you could share it with too?Guide to Involving parents with blogs
Task 
 We would like you to add your voice and ideas to our ongoing conversation about student blogging by completing the following tasks:

1. Read through our 21 ideas above and choose one or more of these ideas to use with your students and parents. Leave a comment to let us know which ones you are going to try with your class or share a link to any resources you have developed. In my opinion, the 4ª idea Newsletter Links, has a lot of importance in the really rehearsal. It is powerful, because it is influential and potent in the blogs class. Another idea is the number 10 Hold parent information Nights, you can be strength so far as property of being strong, support to your students in the resources at the classroom. If you are fatigued or exhausted during the day, you can work at night. To take possession of your skills and help to your students to learn more meaningful.
2. Read through the most recent comments in reply to this step and leave a response to another person’s comment.Ms Coleman, (Feb 19,2019) has had a similar choice than me in the Newsletter emailing to the parents. I agree with is more beneficial than sending home paper copies to save the environment. To put a price on digital copies saves the environment .