Blogging as E-portfolios

In the four years that I have been blogging with students I have always set up the class blog ready for the start of the year.   I would love to set it up individual student's blogs.  First we will look at a variety of class blogs and analyse which blogs work well.  The students will learn the processes for establishing a blog so that they can create their own blog.  I aim for the blog to become the students e-portfoilos, which hopefully they will continue next year.  Choosing an e-portfolios platform has been part of my thinking for about 3 years now!  I have played around with Google Apps  and now that blogger is linked I feel that this would be an avenue worth exploring.  There will be 'can dos' and 'must dos' for the students - I think there is a need for common features amongst the students' blogs to aid navigation for students, parents, whanau & teachers e.g. labels.

Screen shot of my last class blog @ Tahunanui School