“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
- B. F. Skinner

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Week 3

The article on Hot Blogging: A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking was a very knowledgeable article. I liked the point the author made about how a literature response blog simply moves the students ideas and responses online. Online blogs also prompt and invites student responses to a text through open-ended questions that teacher ask. Literacy online blogs also promotes the use of multiple perspectives amongst students. This type of teamwork and collaboration is necessary in our global economy today. This type of collaboration may also serve as an awareness of effective writing and different perspectives amongst students. Overall, I feel online blogging promotes students to read, think and comment on other students work within the classroom.

The article Teaching With Authors’ Blogs: Connections, Collaboration, Creativity was about the importance and potential use of blogging throughout the classroom today regarding the use of authors’ blogs. I feel it is very important for the students to connect with the authors. Through the use of authors online blogs students can connect and learn more about an author.

Chapter two and three in Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classroom was about weblogs and the different uses it has inside the classroom. I liked the idea of how a blog can be an online “filing cabinet.” Not only is this useful for the students, but it also can be a great way amongst the other students in the class to have a discussion and collaborate without taking away from class time. It also is a way for students to create an online portfolio of their work that they will have forever. I have to be honest I never realized what a great tool an online blog was for students until I read these two chapters and articles. I definitely think an online blog is an educational benefit for teachers and students. Online blogs bring so much collaboration and discussion throughout literacy amongst students. Therefore, online blogs can be used inside and outside the classroom in many different ways. Online blogs are beneficial for teachers, students, parents, and the community.

1 comment:

  1. I think blogs are a great way to create and maintain a portfolio. I think student's can learn a lot by looking at their past work and revising and reflecting on it throughout the year. What worries me is, how do we know this information will be of permanent use? How do we know the blogging website or software will cease to exist and all work written on the blog...lost. How are we certain that it will always be there 10, 20, 30 years from when it is written when the web is constantly changing.

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