The most useful information from this article is first the awareness of how huge blogging is. It has exploded! It is overwhelming to think that a new blog is created every two seconds and just think how many new blogs are created right now with this class. I like how the first chapter discusses the appeal of blogging and what age group it appeals to. It was also very helpful to read about the dangers of posting and the steps that can be taken to minimize the dangers and of course the letter to parents very helpful!
I also thought in the second chapter it was very helpful toward the end the examples of blogging used in different subject areas. It is a given that blogging is great for writing and literacy but applying it to science and math is alway a challenge so I really appreciate those examples.
I love the idea on page 30, "Instead of assigning students to go write, we should assign them to go read and then link to what interests them and write about why it does and what it means, not in order to make a connection or build social capital but because it is through quality linking . . ."
This was my big ah ha moment, when I read this suddenly I realized the potential for students and in the classroom. How exciting this would be for students to take charge of their learning, to make them excited about writing and reading because they are looking for information that interests them!
This quote leads me to the second question, "What questions does this article generate for your own in-school exploration?" With the idea of, assign them to read and link you could apply this to any subject. In Social Studies what areas are you interested or to narrow that subject if you are studying World War II break that subject into several different subject areas and have students choose which area interests them the most and they could do further research and post findings for example different areas of interest could be weapons, women is the service, work at home, holocaust etc. In literature of course the possibilities are endless comparing different genres etc.
So I think allowing students to find areas of interests and blogging can become priceless in the classroom.
http://futureofmath.misterteacher.com/Class%20Blogging%20Resources.html A site that had examples and ideas for ways to use blogging in the classroom.
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We'll talk about having the information come to them using RSS and GoogleReader. Another piece to this Web 2.0 world. As you say, so many possibilities!! FYI - I couldn't get into your favorite links?
ReplyDeleteI know the links do not work?! I will play with them again and try and figure out what I did wrong.
ReplyDeleteTricia, I also liked the list of possibilities at the end of Chapter 2. It makes my brain want to explode to think of all the applications there are! I can't wait to try some out. (and by the way, congratulations on your new position. That's awesome!)
ReplyDeleteI did get my links to work silly me I pasted the http in twice so of course it did not recognize the url! ahhh what you can do when you are in the peace and quiet of your home and it is 12:25 a.m.
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