Monday, December 5, 2011
The Benefits of Blogging
This week I have been doing a lot of reflecting on the way to use my classroom blog. Up until this point, I have encouraged students to share the site with their parents and family member and to share their thoughts about the content of the post. Starting this week, I will be having two students write their own posts about the classroom happenings that they choose to share. I really think this may get some of the students who haven't spent as much time navigating the blog getting a little more involved and interested in the process. I am also going to be taking some class time to make sure that students understand just how they can interact with the blog. They may not always be able to have a response to the question that I pose or feel comfortable responding to it, however may not realize that commenting on the thoughts of others can be just as empowering and fun. Besides just having students write posts, I also want to link student work to the blog so that student's feel pride in sharing their work with their families in a different way.
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Jess,
ReplyDeleteI think its a great ideal using students work and linking them to the blog. This will keep them encourage and appreciative of their work. I like how the book mentioned that, it is very true. And once the students that is not participating as much see their's, they will want to do it. I visited your classroom 30 blog which is creative and cool. You have a lot of great information on there. I like how you have the links to the tags on there. Very cool. Keep it up!!!