Monday, July 14, 2008
Blogs are online journals that can be used to post one's thoughts, feelings, and opinions which others can read and to which they can post comments. After seeing the various examples of how other educators have used blogs in the classroom, please post a comment indicating how you could use a blog professionally, i.e. with students, parents, community, peers, etc.
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Great idea! Thanks for posting your blog. I see such great uses of blogs and get excited when other create a new one to share their ideas. The more the merrier!
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I think this would be a good alternative to music journals. Some students don't like to do this, but a chance to "Blog" would make the weekly activity more exciting.
Kayla
It is a great way to provide the immediate feedback that is required!
One of the ways I use blogs in the classroom is as a student reflective writing tool. Then others comment on their classmates' blogs.
I could see blogs being a way for kids to support each other in studying for upcoming events...encouraging each other, study tips they use, setting "mile markers", etc.
We think this is a good idea, but we are unsure of how to set up a closed loop. We want to possibly use with our DL classes. Any help you can give us would be great.
This is a great idea for immediate feedback from students. This might make having them do articles on technology much more fun.
I can see using blogs with first grade students as an avenue for them to express their ideas and share new experiences.
In the elementary classroom, blogs could be used anywhere you would normally journal.
I would like to using blogging with the novels we reading in my lang. arts class. Students would have a chance to share their thoughts and feelings about the book, and get others' ideas about the characters, etc.
Also, I would like to access authors' blogs to help intro the novel and communicate the students' thoughts with the author. I think this would make the students become more involved in the novel.
I could use blogs to have a question and answer forum for parents. Many parents ask me about ways to help their children at home, especially with math and reading. Parents could ask questions and educators and other parents could answer.
I could see students who might not normally write something with paper/pencil using a blog. I think it has unlimited possibilities in education. You might be limited by your district policies, but. . . where there's a will there's a way!
I think blogs can be a very effective tool for my classroom. I would like to use them to help students reinforce and evaluate what they have already learned. I am curious myself as to how to set up a closed blog.
Great way to provide feedback and get recognition for students and teachers
I think I would be able to use blogging as a way to do personal reflection on an activity, lesson,etc.
I'm thinking that this would work with our workstudy class. Kids could get on and share about experiences, concerns, questions, etc... that they've had with their workstudy and we (the instructors) could provide some feedback.
I have not used blogs with my students yet. I am still working on typing skills with them. One blog might take 40-50 minutes for my students.
Since summarizing is such an important skill it would be a way the teacher could test the knowledge gained and the student to practice summarizing.
Great Idea! I could use this with science lessons and units that we are learning to promote discussion in groups and with the class. It would also give the feedback from the teacher and peers.
I could use a blog to let parents know how their children are doing in my class. The students could use it to discuss some of the activities that we do in class.
I think this would be great for students to review what they have learned .
It would be a good way for the students to "talk" to each other about novels they have read in English.
I could envision using this in my 8th grade English class by having students post responses/reactions to the stories we read. I could initiate the discussion by asking 1 or 2 questions for them to comment on. They could read each other's responses and them comment on them as well.
I think my students could use blogging to share books they have enjoyed.
We are hoping to be using the Angel program this year in high school classes so I think the option of blogging for feedback will be very beneficial in the classroom.
Blogging is very easy for the students and they can see and respond to other students, not just the teacher.
Great ideas for using blogging with students
There are times when I would like students to explain to me what they have learned today. Also, explain to me how they would solve a particular problem.
Another concept that I could use it for is to address the questions, "what is the muddiest point". What did you not understand in todays presentation.
However, I am not sure that our school system is set up for blogging. I will have have to investigate.
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