Blogs
What are Blogs?
- Blogs are short for web log. They are a web page that serves as a publicly accessible location for discussing a topic or issues.
- Blogs are interactive websites created,designed, managed, and updated by an individual, with regular entries.
Blogs in the Educational Field
Blogs are becoming more and more popular these days in the world of education. Schools around world are finding that teachers and students are using blogs as a form of communication because how accessible they are. Listed below are examples of blogs in the world of education. Click on the highlighted text to see examples of each blog.
- Teachers: Blogs are being used by teachers to communicate to parents and students about what is going on in the school and in their classrooms. Most teachers post homework, and upcoming events in their school on their blogs. Example of a Teacher/Classroom Blog.
- Student Blogging: Students may also maintain a blog, with supervision by a teacher. A teacher must first go over the rules and how tell the students how to be safe of the internet before students start blogging. There are websites that provide safe internet blogging for students that allow teachers to supervise the material being publish on the web. And some sites are only visible by members (students/teachers) of the site, the site is password protected. Example of this type of site is kidblog.org. Example of Student Blogging.
- Collaboration: Collaboration blogs are blogs where there is more than one author working together on the blog. Example of a Collaboration Blog.
Future Blog:
In my future classroom I will use the blog as an updated memo or weekly parent letter to communicate with my students and their parents. I will post homework reminders for students, just in case they forgot homework at school. To helps parents stay in the loop with current issues happening inside and outside of the classroom walls , I will post upcoming events and announcements for them. Here is a sample of the type of blog I would establish in my future classroom. Click here to preview the blog.
In my future classroom, I would like for my class to take on a blogging. The blogs will be on a secure site that is control by a password, but still allows others such members to view the students' work. I would like my students to publish their writing on their blogs. To show the different stages of the writing process (pre-writing, rough draft, editing/peer editing, revising, and final product). This project would fit in with a Second Grade Class. It would cover the following standards...
ELA2W1 The student begins to demonstrate competency in the writing process. The student...
For this project the teacher will have a hands on role with it. The teacher would control what the students are publishing on the blogs. The teacher will review the students work to make sure personal information is not included in the stories. Plus the teacher will help students type and navigate the students on basic blogging skills. The half of learning for the lesson will take place in the classroom for students to write their ideas and rough drafts on paper before transferring it to a blog. The other half of the learning will take place in a computer lab or on laptops that can be brought to the classroom during the language art schedule.
Yes the students can do without the blogs for this lesson. But the students will not have the opportunity of other members on the blog site to review and comment their work.
In my future classroom, I would like for my class to take on a blogging. The blogs will be on a secure site that is control by a password, but still allows others such members to view the students' work. I would like my students to publish their writing on their blogs. To show the different stages of the writing process (pre-writing, rough draft, editing/peer editing, revising, and final product). This project would fit in with a Second Grade Class. It would cover the following standards...
ELA2W1 The student begins to demonstrate competency in the writing process. The student...
- h. Pre-writes to generate ideas orally.
- i. Uses planning ideas to produce a rough draft.
- j. Rereads writing to self and others, revises to add details, and edits to make corrections.
- k. Creates documents with legible handwriting.
For this project the teacher will have a hands on role with it. The teacher would control what the students are publishing on the blogs. The teacher will review the students work to make sure personal information is not included in the stories. Plus the teacher will help students type and navigate the students on basic blogging skills. The half of learning for the lesson will take place in the classroom for students to write their ideas and rough drafts on paper before transferring it to a blog. The other half of the learning will take place in a computer lab or on laptops that can be brought to the classroom during the language art schedule.
Yes the students can do without the blogs for this lesson. But the students will not have the opportunity of other members on the blog site to review and comment their work.