Sunday, February 1, 2009

A new tool

I have read some articles on blogging and now have a new opinion about this new tool.  It is clear that blogs can be used by many different people no matter their age or education level.  I first believed that blogs were used more as a journal that could be viewed by other people than a place to tell news.  Now, I realize blogging can be used for so much more.

I was reading an article about blogging in the elementary classrooms.  As you see in my last post, I really felt that as an elementary school teacher, blogging isn't something i will be able to use.  I have since learned that there are special sites that allow teachers to create a classroom blog that they can control themselves.  Here, children can respond to questions or prompts the teacher has posted, sort of as a classroom or even homework assignment.  Depending on the type of class i am teaching, I could either have children do this at our classroom computer or in a computer lab.  

I look forward to reading other teachers' blogs.  I feel that it is a good place to find and record ideas to use in the classroom.  

4 comments:

  1. Kim, I love your blog's title! :)

    I think I too, did not really regard blogs as something I would use in early childhood, but I can see now that they might be a useful tool depending on the age group we teach - or even as a tool to keep parents connected to the classroom if they choose to.

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  2. Pleasure to meet cha round here. I concur that the title caused my right eye brow to raise slightly ;-) The blogosphere can't have enough witty teachers to pass around new ideas.

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  3. Students need all sorts of real applications for their writing...and that is one great use of blogging. Keep looking at other elementary teachers who are challenging their students to write in such an authentic way.

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  4. Blogging can also be a way to practise language - reading and writing in communication with real people - commenting on posts and writing new ones to comment. :) With this i mean a foreign language.

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