chai Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Is there a safe way for a kid to have a blog? How does one go about setting something like that up? I am blogless by choice--I just never have that much to say. However, my dd, who is 12, loves to write and chat and I think that she would be a great blogger. She is taking a computer class this fall and is learning HTML. She has played around just a bit with making a simple web site. Other than that, I know nothing. Do you have any ideas for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Pip Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 I think you can set up the blog (thinking of Blogger here) as either private, or only with people you share the link with, or public. Definitely look into those different options. Blogger is a nice platform to learn on - you can use html in various places, if you know how to do it. I think I would recommend Blogger as a starting place for a 12yo rather than Wordpress. I'm finding a lot of quirks with Wordpress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chai Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share Posted July 21, 2011 Thank you for giving me a place to start. I really know nothing about blogging. Does anyone have a kid with a blog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Pip Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 My 8 yo and 10yo have blogger blogs. Not very many posts, lol. The thrill died young. But they did learn to do some cool things, like post pics, and change their backgrounds using html (cutest blog on the block has great backgrounds and they enjoyed changing their backgrounds daily for awhile). I could probably make the blogs into more of a school project, and maybe I will (you know, post pics and a summary of the Civil War, LOL!) We have chosen to just share the blogs with a small number of people (family, friends). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 My ds10 has a blog that he works on very occasionally. I think getting him to write more on it would help his writing! It is on blogger, and private, so only invited people can see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth in MN Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 According to the terms of service you have to be 13 or older to have either a Blogger account or Live Journal. I have an acquaintance who allowed her daughter to get a blog and frankly it scares me. The parents say the monitor everything that goes out but by reading just the blog you can find out the daughter's name, age, and where she lives. You can also do that with all of her siblings just through the one blog. It's just not safe IMO. All that said, my daughter does have a blog at http://www.allykatzz.com . She loves it, and it's very secure. All entries and messages are monitored by paid college students and the monitoring staff approves posts before they go up. You can't use your real name, post pictures with faces in them, or location beyond what state you live in. Phone numbers can not be exchanged and you can't give someone another way to communicate outside of the site. I know it's not perfect, but it's head and shoulders above a plain old blog IMNSHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Thanks for this, Elizabeth. I just told dd she can create a blog to report on our sabbatical, but I didn't want her using a public blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2boys030507 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 this is a safe site for kids to have blogs on. http://kidblog.org/home.php I have thought about getting our homeschool group on here for kids to blog but mine are not quite old enough, so I haven't done anything with it yet. I have a friend who is a public school teacher and she uses it for her students and it works great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chai Posted July 22, 2011 Author Share Posted July 22, 2011 Thanks everyone! This has been really helpful. I'm going to check these sites out and let her get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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