Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Blogging in the Classroom
I am very new to blogging and still learning the ins and outs of the whole process. I am always thinking of ways that I can incorporate what I am learning through my master's class into my own classroom. I am currently teaching second grade and I am fortunate enough to be at a school with wonderful technology and I teach students that have access to computers at home. This week I was going through the units I wanted to teach for the next nine weeks. Every year we do a big unit on Charlotte's Web. Part of the unit requires the students to keep a discussion journal. Each night they read a chapter of the book and write their thoughts in the journal and share with the class the next day. I realized that this would be a perfect time to bring blogging into my classroom! I could like to set up a Charlotte's Web blog for my class. Instead of having students write in a journal each night, they can blog. Then, each day in class I can pull up the blog on the SMARTboard and we can discuss each other's thoughts and opinions about the book from the blog. I think that this would keep the students interested and it would be a great introduction to blogging. I can't wait to start!
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This sounds like a fun idea! Do all of your students have access to a computer at home? It might not be possible for all students to blog each night after they read if they do not have a way to access the blog. If there are students who do not have computers, I would suggest allowing them to write in a regular journal at night, and allow them to type their journal writing into the blog. I love the idea of bringing up the blog on the SMART board each day to share the students' work. Best of luck!
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a great idea. I teach second grade as well. Many of my students are unable to write fluently because they lack foundational language skills. Therefore much of their written work contains spelling, usage, and punctuation errors. Do any of your students struggle in these areas? If so, will these types of mistakes be posted in the blog?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments about my post! I fortunately work at a school where all but one of my students have access to computers at home. The student that does not have access to a computer usually does his work in the morning when he arrives at school. Tiffany had a good idea to have the student write in a regular journal at home and then transfer the writing to the blog at school.
ReplyDeleteWhen time allows I will help the students edit their grammar and spelling mistakes. I might also have, as a homework assignment, students and parents work once or twice a week to edit their work for the blog site.
I think that allowing parents and students to work together on editing the blog is a great idea. This may be something I can implement as well. Not only does it provide parents with the opportunity to get involved with student learning, it might also encourage parents to participate in a "parent blog". This would be a great way for parents to interact with each other as well as the teacher.
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