Continued observations on beginning student blogging

It's interesting the assumptions we make sometimes. Our school seems dominated by facebook sometimes, and I often expect our H.S. students to be more tech-savvy than they are. I forget sometimes, that things can be new even to them.

For instance, I was going over some first-time blogs from some of our freshmen, and I was surprised to see a few of them that had URLs just written out in the body of the blog. The text wasn't hyperlinked at all, even links to pictures and video were just in the same black text as the rest of the post.

I thought that once they started editing their text they would see the tools at the top of the Blogger editor page and see that they could add those links, pictures and videos in more elegantly.

It is easy to forget that not all of our students take to this stuff instantly. It is new to all of us - even the current "techno-native" generation - once.