As a teacher, a blog can be a wonderful teaching tool to use in the classroom. The process of creating a blog not only extends the walls of the classroom, it also gives your students a voice and an audience which validates their work. Blogs are great resources for communication and information literacy skills and they serve as a wonderful tool for reflection on learning. In addition, the audience for your students' blogs can by anyone in the entire world. A classroom of second grade students in China can make posts and comments on your classroom's blogs here in Texas. What a neat experience to provide your students with through their web blogs. These intercultural exchanges may be a once in a lifetime experience for some of these children. Blogs are used in the classroom for communication, literacy, sharing, collaboration, interaction, discussion, participation, engagement, excitement, conversation, expression, and reflection. The benefits of the blogging experience will enhance your students knowledge and skills.
There are many different ways in which you could utilize a blog in the classroom. For example, you could have your students create a personal blog in which they would post certain pieces of work from the current school year, kind of like a portfolio. This blog would serve as a reflection of what the students learned that year. Also, it will provide a fun and interactive technological experience for your students to add to their background knowledge or schema. Also, you could create a classroom blog for a specific science experiment that your students have conducted. This blog would include the step by step process of the experiment and any observations or results that the students recorded. This would be a fun activity for your students to participate in, and it would allow them the ability to refer back to this experiment and receive feedback. There are many possibilities for using blogs in the classroom. Some middle school teachers even use blogs to post upcoming assignments, schedules, and news for their students. Anyway that you implement the use of blogs in your classroom will prove to be a fruitful experience for your students. Be creative and get your students active in "blogging to learn".
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Katie,
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the ideas and ways you collected to show how to use blogs in the classroom. I work in a Spanish lab, and I think this method could be a blessing to give ideas and lead students in their Spanish learning that sometimes is frustrating for some students, because learning a language is not easy, especially if you don't have someone to practice it. With this method, as you say, the audience for our students' blogs can communicate anyone in the entire world.
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