Explain how you might apply the blogging tool to your
classroom or future classroom?
Class Portal
Class blogs can serve as a portal to foster a community of
learners. As they are easy to create and update efficiently, they can be used
to inform students of class requirements, post handouts, notices, and homework
assignments, or act as a question and answer board.
E-Portfolio
Blogs present, organize, and protect student work as digital
portfolios. As older entries are archived, developing skills and progress may
be analyzed more conveniently. Additionally, as students realize their efforts
will be published, they are typically more motivated to produce better writing.
Teachers and peers may conference with a student individually on a developing
work, and expert or peer mentoring advice can be easily kept for future
reference.
Collaborative Space
Students can brainstorm on interesting topics together to
become experts on a topic, and then share their knowledge with
others. Blogs provide a space where teachers and students can work to
further develop writing or other skills with the advantage of an instant
audience. Teachers can offer instructional tips, and students can practice and
benefit from peer review. They also make online mentoring possible. For
example, a class of older students can help a class of younger students develop
more confidence in their writing skills. Students can also participate in
cooperative learning activities that require them to relay research findings,
ideas, or suggestions.
Knowledge Management and Articulation
Class blogs can serve as a portal to foster a community of
learners. As they are easy to create and update efficiently, they can be used
to inform students of class requirements, post handouts, notices, and homework
assignments, or act as a question and answer board.
School Website
Blogs should be updated in a flash, and then used to
communicate school announcements, reflections on school events, parent-driven
newsletters, etc.
Hi Sweetmore,
ReplyDeleteI love the possibilities with blogging. The more we work with them ourselves, the more I think they are an awesome tool that could be used in so many ways in the classroom. I really like the idea of e-portfolios for many reasons. Students are able to keep track of their work and what they've learned, they can 'show off their work' to friends, family, or anyone with an Internet connection. E-portfolios give students a sense of motivation to put a good product on their blog (for the world to see) and accomplishment when they reflect on all of the work they did. It's like the refrigerator to hang all of the great work on. An e-portfolio also helps students 'file' their work so that their efforts are not 'lost', but easily accessible in one location.
I like many (well, pretty much all) of the possibilities with blogs, especially e-portfolios.
Thanks for sharing the possibilities and examples of how to use blogs!
Thanks,
Andrea
Andrea
DeleteI totally agree with you about e-portfolios.It is a way of saving papers thus going green.The fact that we have some experiences of using e-portfolios it will be easy for us to introduce them to the students.Students can also create a blog where they collect data on science experiments. Blogs can be used to display information gathered from spreadsheets from experiments and assessments. Students can then create graphs and charts explaining/analyzing relationships of data.It looks like blogs can do much more as long as you know how to go about it. This is becoming more challenging and interesting!Thank you for sharing.
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