paigepea
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Post by paigepea on Feb 7, 2016 19:37:06 GMT
My 10 year old is interested in starting a blog with book reviews / her ideas about books she reads. She doesn't text, isn't interested in Instagram like some of her friends, and doesn't play computer games, so this sounds like a positive computer endeavour and we'd like to encourage her. She'd need our help a lot to start.
Is this a good idea? Any tips?
Thanks,
paige.
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Post by jamielynn on Feb 7, 2016 20:41:22 GMT
I don't have children that age - so take me with a grain of salt if you please:
My fear would be people responding negatively to her opinions on there. Child Internet trolls. I don't think I would be comfortable with my child doing that as it is so easy to be bullied or if word gets out at school kids thinking it would be amusing to "play" with her on there. Isn't it sad that those things are even considered.
Could you help her start a book club for her age grow at the local library? Maybe something where the kids don't have to read the same book but come with book suggestions, and discuss the books they have enjoyed the last two weeks or month; or the ones they haven't and why? Maybe the library could even add a bulletin board in the children's sections where they can give recommendations - or even earn points for those toward monthly prize drawings or something? Sometimes all places need is someone motivated to volunteer and start something up. She could use it like a service project and it would look excellent on academic program applications, or for future scholarships.
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Post by johnnysmom on Feb 7, 2016 20:49:10 GMT
I have no experience with kids blogging. 10 seems a bit young but kids are using technology so early so what do I know. As long as she is cautious I think it would be ok but you should be the administrator. You can set it up so you're the admin and she's an editor so she only has access to certain things. You'll need to make sure she only posts things you approve of (pics, location, age, etc), you can (and probably should) block comments or at least have them turned so approval is required.
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Post by gritzi on Feb 7, 2016 21:14:30 GMT
I think 10 is young for Instagram, and blogging, too. I agree w/Jamielynn's post.
Is there a book club at your daughter's school? If not, perhaps she (w/your help) can approach the principal and librarian. When my younger DS was in intermediate school (4-6th grades) a book club was started and became an instant hit.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Feb 7, 2016 21:15:00 GMT
Ditto to what johnnysmom said about the moderating. I also think that if you do it through google (which is the blogger platform), you can have it set so that the blog won't show up in google search results. (I can double check my settings if that's what you want to do; I recall it seemed rather self explanatory when I was setting mine up, but it's been years, so the options may have changed.) That way, the only people who get to it are the ones who know the exact address for the blog. |
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Post by paigepea on Feb 7, 2016 21:44:50 GMT
Yes, we would be the moderators. She doesn't have access to a computer without us so we'd always have to be there when she's adding something. She knows she couldn't add something without our approval.
She is already a member of book club at her school.
It seems innocent enough to try. If it doesn't go well we could stop it. We just really wanted her to think a bit more about what she was reading - think more than is required of her at schoo, where she is hardly asked to think. It seems like computer type projects are becoming more popular. her friends are making videos and putting them on Instagram and we needed something very far from that.
I used to have a blog you couldn't search for. It was just accessible with the correct link. It was for baby photos for family far away - but I don't think we'd let dd put her photo on a blog.
Thanks for the comments. We'll try it with strict control and if it's no good then we'll stop.
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