The article I found is called "Blogging? It's Elementary, My Dear Watson!" from the Education World website. This was not a bad article at all. I found it interesting because it talked about blogging in an elementary classroom. The article brought up a point I never thought about. It mentioned that children are more likely to do better on a writing assignment if they actually have a writing audience. Students would feel that they are writing for a purpose and someone else besides the teacher would actually read what they are writing. The article not only talks about the benefits of blogging for younger children it also mentions how to start a blog or what teachers need to start the blog. It is also a great article because it gives some great safety information! Saftey on the internet is a big issue now!
Website: http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech217.shtml
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I have used the Education World website to get ideas for several different assignments so far. I think that it is a great website for teachers to use and is easy to navigate. The article you found seems like it would really have teachers with integrating blogging into the classroom. Many elementary teachers may question whether or not blogging may be appropriate for this age group but this article gives several reasons why it would be beneficial. One benefit would be to allow children to feel they are writing for a purpose, like you explained, as well as allowing children to look at other viewpoints from peers. The website offers several different websites that teachers can go to for more information on blogging. I think that this is a great website for teachers to look at to begin to incorporate blogging in the classroom.
I loved this article! I like to blog so therefore, I liked reading about blogging in an elementary classroom. I also found that point to be very interesting as well about how children will do better when writing if they have an audience. This is a very good point and I would definitley consider using blogging in my classroom. It also helps because it does give rules and regulations about safety internet use.
Great Job!
Wow! I never thought about using blogs in an elementary classroom before. That would be really neat, I think! Safety would be my number one concern and I think the article really helps with that on their ideas about internet safety! I am all for it if it is going to help students with their writing skills!
I love this website- EducationWorld offers SO many resources for teachers! You brought an excellent point, on how students sometimes are less motivated in school if only a teacher is reading what they are writing. Assignments to be read by others, whether it be on a bulletin board or a pen-pale in another state, are what most students enjoy more. Therefore blogging on the internet is potentially another way to have students engage in the writing process, without them dreading it. Since we have been using blogs in our technology class (my first introduction to it..) it’s obvious that teachers are starting to do this in the classroom, too. I’m not sure if I’m completely for or against this source of information sharing, but nonetheless- it’s a new technology that is being utilized.
Robyn,
The article that I found was dealing with the same thing; blogging. After all of the articles that I have read and that have dealt with blogging, none of said anything about students writing to an audience. I think it is a great point because I remember not only now in college, but also in high school it was hard to write a paper because I did not know who I was really writing it to other than my teacher. It was always hard for me to write something when the audience was not specified and if I had to make up one, that was difficult for me as well. If I knew that others were reading my work other than my teacher I would focus more on the audience and also my finished work, knowing that others were reading it as well. I think it also makes people/students think before they speak, because people do not like to hurt others feelings therefore they have a better sense of their surroundings and not such a bias approach. Also with what you said, it gives students a chance to say things that they necessarily would not say in the classroom and I think that is very important. Not only do I agree, but I have even noticed it within this class. After being with a lot of the same people in other classes, you notice who are the talkers and who aren’t, and through these blogs, those “quiet” people really share their opinions and feelings on here and I think that is very interesting but an extreme positive to blogs. To learn more about teacher’s opinions and to get other ideas on blogs check out my article, post. It really talks a lot more about blogs and how teachers used them and what they thought of them (pretty interesting). Also for my ERIC project it is on electronic portfolios, which to me can sometimes see like a more personal blog, but have the same affect, so it should be interesting to hear what my group has to say about those as well. But good luck the rest of the semester! Good article!
-Kaitlyn Imbus
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