How could blogs and blogging help you extend teaching and learning in your current assignment?
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Moving Beyond the Walls of the Classroom
How could blogs and blogging help you extend teaching and learning in your current assignment?
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I would like to develop a blog for a 9th grade world geography class to connect students with others from around the world.
I hope this would allow students to gain insight and perspective of standard of living and education around the globe.
Currently, I’d use a classroom blog to extend our 4th grade California missions project!
California missions would be an excellent showcase item for a blog.
Blogging will help my parents stay connected with school and what going on inside the classroom. They will be able to see what we learned that day/week/month, upcoming test/projects, and view homework assigned that day.
Blogs and blogging will help me provide my students and parents with up to date classroom information such as monthly newsletter, upcoming field trip information and parent sign up lists, current and completed projects with our 4th grade buddy class.
I like the idea of projects created with the buddy class being uploaded so both parents would be able to see. GREAT idea!!!!!
Maybe I could post supplemental lab videos to extend understanding?
I would like to use a blog for the discussion board feature. I have a lot of verbal discussions in my classroom, and I would like to apply that digitally. This way all students will participate (not just the students that like to talk in class).
Blogs and blogging would help me to extend teaching and learning in my current assignment by allowing me to post newsletters to my parents, and allowing comments back and forth. I could also using blogging to post homework assignments for my students to see nightly. I could use a blogs for long term projects, and writing assignments. I could also post a calendar of assignments, projects, field trips, and events for parents to see. I could post videos to help with lessons, and show links to educational videos to help students to further understand a lesson.
Blogging will help keep parents informed about what is going on in the classroom. They will also be able to comment on how their student was affected by a particular event.
I would use the blog to announce upcoming parent meetings and other important dates.
Also to invite parents for special events and activities.
Learning to blog is impacting the way my second grade students communicate. They are gaining awareness of their own use of language, both spoken and written. They are increasing in their ability to write with an audience in mind. They are wondering what others will say in response. We all anticipate where the conversation will go next. It’s such a meaningful way to teach!
I’m thinking about all the Common Core Standards you are addressing, Cathe – while providing your students a pathway into digital writing/digital citizenship. Wonderful!
I’m interested in using blogs for PBL. We’re doing a Native American project that I would like the students to put on a blog.
I would use the blog to communicate with parents to organize my overnight trip to Sutter’s Fort.
Using a blog will model for the children how to edit children’s writing.