One of the questions that I am often asked about using blogs in the classroom is, “how do you keep track of them all?” Even if you have all of your students contributing to the same blog it can be difficult to keep up with all of the posts. One strategy that I’ve used in the past is to have students enter their names and links to their most recent posts into a Google Form. All of their submissions will appear in a tidy spreadsheet. In that spreadsheet I can see a timestamp, name, and the link to go directly to a student’s most recent post. I can also add a column in the spreadsheet for noting whether or not I have given them feedback.

I offer strategies like this one and many more in my Practical Ed Tech course, Blogs and Social Media for Teachers and School Leaders.