I had many issues with this post (html problems), so I'm not loving technology at the present moment!
Today I'm going to start checking out some elementary school blogs. I found two that I'd like to discuss.
Blog #1: http://blogs.oaisd.org/236
Another example of a blog that uses the format to keep parents and students updated on classroom happenings. If you check this blog out, notice the comments links...almost all of them show 0 responses. This blog seems more teacher centered than student centered and doesn't require much effort on the part of the student. One plus- the students write about using a lot of technology in the classroom. Let's just hope the technology is successfully incorporating curriculum, right?
Blog #2:http://jones4.bravejournal.com/
Hip, hip, hooray! I found a fourth-grade blog that uses the format to answer teacher questions about chapter books. Students are required to answer these questions (often for a grade) and the best part is that the teacher opens discussions every now and then to encourage communication between the students! Check out the March 1st entry. It is an open discussion day and the responses number 120. Normal entries only get 45 responses because discussion is not encouraged. Granted, some students write very brief entries, but they are communicating, making each other think, and learning from one another. Job well done.
All of this blog searching leads me to the inspiration for my next post. It seems like many blogs are using the format as nothing more than a web page. I'm going to search for some articles that tell how to use a blog effectively. See ya next time.
15 comments:
Laine-
It definitely makes a difference. Technology thrown out for technology's sake or content-driven, tech-infused lessons. I came across several links I thought you might find useful:
The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom: www.editlib.org/index.cfm/files/
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I came across this by our own Dr. Ferdig (I was unable to find the whole article anywhere but maybe Dr. Ferdig could get you one..)--
Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'
Journal article by Richard E. Ferdig, Kaye D. Trammell; T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), Vol. 31, 2004
Journal Article Excerpt
Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'.
by Richard E. Ferdig , Kaye D. Trammell
THE INTEREST IN NEW MEDIA FOR teaching and learning has highlighted the potential of innovative software and hardware for education. This has included laptops, hand-helds, wireless systems and Web-based learning environments. Most recently, however, this interest has focused on blogs and blogging.
Weblogs, or blogs, are Web pages often likened to online personal journals. They are noted for being the "unedited, published voice of the people" (Winer 2003). Winer provides a more technical definition, suggesting that a Weblog is "a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser." Blogging is writing...
This site has a bunch of links to different resources for using blogs: http://www.emints.org/ethemes/
resources/S00001449.shtml
Not sure if these are new to you or not, but thought I'd throw them out.
Is there a way to add a direct hyperlink to these in the "comments" section without having to paste the whole address? While I am an avid blog reader this is my first experience actually posting and I have no time to go digging through "help" to figure this out.
Thanks in advance to anyone who might have a clue!
The last blog you found was wonderful. It was good to see that the discussion was begun by the teacher, but then the students took the question and ran with it. This is using educational technology correctly.
There are, of course, a huge number of blogs that just seem feckless, like this one:
http://paulkeyes.wordpress.com/
I think of any educational, internet-based communication should be constructed in a way that anyone who views it for the first time understands the set-up, the roles of the participants, and how to get something out of it even if one is just a guest to the site. Ineffective blogs and other educational technologies highlight the need for more, effective professional development.
Well said.
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