1. Blogger, Kids Blog, and Newsla By: Diana and Maddy

2. Blogger

3. Overview  Design your own blog  Grow your audience by connecting with Google+  Earn money with Blogger’s income-generating tools  Post from anywhere  Available in 60 languages and in countries around the world

4. Blogger Tutorial

5. Using Blogger in Education  Post resources, lessons, and homework assignments  Keep parents up-to-date on class happenings  Reflect on their own teaching practices  Share ideas with other educators

6. Kids Blog

7. Overview  Built by teachers, for teachers  Allows students to post safely online  Teachers able to monitor all activity within their blogging community  Kid-friendly for students K-12 to use  Allows students to write meaningfully to an authentic audience  Helping to re-imagine writing instruction  Engages students in pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing, and commenting

8. Kids Blog Tutorial

9. Using Kids Blog in Education  Creative writing  Book club  Math Problem-solving  Science notebooks  Global Pen Pals  Digital Portfolio

10. Newsela

11. Overview  Innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that’s relevant  Daily News  Allows the entire class to read the same content, but at a level that’s just right for each student

12. Newsela Tutorial

13. Using Newsela in Education  Texts are available at various Lexile levels with interactive quizzes  Newsela adds new articles each day that can be assigned to your students  Browse the latest news articles or narrow your choices to a specific grade, reading standard, publication, or language  Students can also search for relevant or interesting articles on their own