As I was researching about blogging, I came across heaps of information about blogging in schools. It is becoming a very popular asset in schools in this century and it is helping children to become motivated in learning.
One website that I entered, I found that children are using blog sites to post their results of their work or even reflect on school, which they are calling personal communication zone. They can use it for many other things as well. For example a personal private space, reserved for students’ thought and teacher guidance. It is also used to publish announcements which can become very helpful for each and every student.
In this website (all websites researched in this blog are at the end of this blog) a student talks about the advantage of having blogs in school:
“The blogs give us a chance to communicate between us and Motivate us to write more. When we publish on our blog, people from the entire world can respond by using the comments link. This way, they can ask questions or simply tell us what they like. We can then know if people like what we write and this indicate[s to] us what to do better. By reading these comments, we can know our weaknesses and our talents. Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment."
This shows that they can increase their learning from peer feedback – even if its someone from halfway around the world to where they live.
Another student in this website says:
“The impact of the blogs on my day to day life is that I write a lot more and a lot longer than the previous years. I also pay more attention when I write in my blog (especially my spelling) since I know anybody can read my posts.”
This also shows that they are increasing their learning skills and that they are having fun doing it. By blogging their learning they can focus on things such as spelling and the length of writing.
This website also goes on about how it is attractive in both educational settings and the internet. it continues to enhance the positives about having blog sites in schools. Firstly it is very easy to use and the blogger can edit their posts without worrying about page formats or HTMLs. It is also cheap as there are many sites to choose from and many are free to sign up to. This blog that I have signed up to was free and I was able to quickly get into blogging without thinking that I was in trouble with the whole HTML problems that I have not yet grown accustomed to.
In this website (all websites researched in this blog are at the end of this blog) a student talks about the advantage of having blogs in school:
“The blogs give us a chance to communicate between us and Motivate us to write more. When we publish on our blog, people from the entire world can respond by using the comments link. This way, they can ask questions or simply tell us what they like. We can then know if people like what we write and this indicate[s to] us what to do better. By reading these comments, we can know our weaknesses and our talents. Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment."
This shows that they can increase their learning from peer feedback – even if its someone from halfway around the world to where they live.
Another student in this website says:
“The impact of the blogs on my day to day life is that I write a lot more and a lot longer than the previous years. I also pay more attention when I write in my blog (especially my spelling) since I know anybody can read my posts.”
This also shows that they are increasing their learning skills and that they are having fun doing it. By blogging their learning they can focus on things such as spelling and the length of writing.
This website also goes on about how it is attractive in both educational settings and the internet. it continues to enhance the positives about having blog sites in schools. Firstly it is very easy to use and the blogger can edit their posts without worrying about page formats or HTMLs. It is also cheap as there are many sites to choose from and many are free to sign up to. This blog that I have signed up to was free and I was able to quickly get into blogging without thinking that I was in trouble with the whole HTML problems that I have not yet grown accustomed to.
Look at this cool website. Anne Davis has put a list of things that you as a teacher can do with a blog. It also has great ideas how to use blogging in the classroom. For example:
- create a literature circle.
- create an online book club.
- make use of the commenting feature to have students publish messages on topics being used to develop language skills.
- ask students to create their own individual course blogs, where they can post their own ideas, reactions and written work.
There are heaps more ideas as well!!
Anne also talks about the potential in blogging for encouraging student reflection
"You might like to create a reflective, journal type blog to..." and she goes on to suggest why. I had a few more ideas about this thinking how education has moved far more from tthe products to learning through reflection on the journey of making and the process of coming to understand. This matches well with changes to assessment and things like eportfolios. I'll save this idea for a separate new blog because there is so much we could link in here.
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