Here is a picture of my RR part of the classroom….
I feel that using a blog as a class portal is appropriate for my classroom. From a teaching standpoint, having a place to publish the course curriculum, syllabus, class rules, homework assignments, rubrics, handouts and presentations makes Web log a powerful course management tool (Richardson, 2009). We are currently required at East Washington to keep a website showing a continuum of education. We use the websites to prove that we are still educating students if we are shut down for the H1N1. I think that blogs would be a much better way to prove continuing education.
Knowledge management and articulation is also an appropriate use of blogging in my classroom. I attended a workshop today with the RTI team at our school. We loved all the ideas that the presenter had for our team, but our biggest issue was time. When will we possibly have time to have these extra meetings - we are already out of the classroom enough! According to Richardson, (2009) “ School committees and groups that meet on a regular basis can use a blog to archive minutes of meetings, continue dialogues, share lings to relevant information, and store documents and presentations for easy access later on.” What a great idea! However, this does mean that my colleagues would have to “buy” into blogging.
At first grade level, I don’t think that blogging is appropriate for my students. However, it is appropriate for me to use to contact parents, and collaborate with colleagues.
Do you have any suggestions on other ways I can incorporate blogging into my classroom?
I think this is a great idea!
ReplyDeleteThat is such a great idea!!! I think this would be awesome for parents to kind of "check up" on their kids' homework and kind of verify exaclty what they need to turn in! So cool!!!
ReplyDeleteThe ideas you presented are ones that can be used in any classroom in any country right now. As for blogging being appropriate for first grade, I think that it would acceptable. Perhaps they may not be able to blog at the begining of the school year, but why not by the end? Blogging would just be another way of teaching reading and writing. Maybe the sentence stucture would not be perfect, but I could show you some junior high school (and perhaps even high schoolers) that do not know how to write a good sentence. The sooner we expose our students to the internet, the better for them. You may even find that some of your students have already seen blogs.
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