The end of the school year is near for many of us. If your students have been blogging all year, you might want to have a physical copy of what they’ve written this year. Creating a physical copy of a classroom blog is a great way to show students just how much they wrote in the course of the school year. It’s one thing to tell them they wrote 10,000 words it’s another to show them how many pages that is when printed.
BlogBooker is a free service that allows you to turn your the contents of your Blogger blog into a PDF. Using BlogBooker is a fairly straight-forward process. BlogBooker walks you through each step of the process except for the very first step which might sound a little too “techy” for some Blogger users, but it’s actually quite easy. The first step in using BlogBooker is to export the contents of your blog as an XML file. This is actually easy to do in Blogger. Step one is to open the “settings” menu of your Blogger blog. Step two is to select “export blog” under “basic” menu. Step three is to click “download.” Don’t worry, exporting the contents of your blog will not remove any content from your blog. After you’ve completed the export process, jump over to BlogBooker and follow their directions for completing the transition from XML file to PDF.