When I started this blog entry, I became concerned about the information I found on Educational uses for blogs in the classroom. Most blogs gave very general information as the one from Charles Nelson. On his blog he stated that blogs should be used as a “key, task driven, elements of your course." (Nelson) Although he offers great advice and is obviously knowledgeable in his field, for me the blog is boring. Talk about snore!
So I kept hunting. And hunting. And hunting. Until finally I found a blog for teachers that was easy to read as well as surf through. It is titled “Teachers First: Blog Basics for the Classroom.” An author is not named. Source Learning copyrights the site and leads the viewer to believe that many teachers offered information to bring the site together.
This site starts with blog basics for the beginners and continues until on the third page there is a list of ideas for blog uses in the classroom. First the site shows that most classroom blogs are used for communicating with the student’s parents on the class weekly happenings. Second, blogs are used for reminders of class and school events, and to share ideas with other students, who might be working on the same assignments but are in another city or state.
What I liked most about this site is that it continues further offering ideas that most teachers might not think about. Each class blog can focus on the subject that everyone wants to contribute to. It might cover school sports with each player contributing depending on the season. One idea was a recipe sharing blog for a home economics course and if the school is in an area where there is a lot of bad weather, the blog could be a way for the teacher to communicate with the students so they would not fall way behind.
The Teacher First site covers blog safety. This included facts on how to state ideas and other information without giving away location and student information. This is very important especially for younger students.
If your interested in building a blog for your classroom, check out Teacher’s First. It really helped me on this assignment.
Reference
Nelson, Charles. (2006) How to Use Blogs in the Classroom. Retrieved from Explorations in Learning, April 2, 2010.
Reference
Nelson, Charles. (2006) How to Use Blogs in the Classroom. Retrieved from Explorations in Learning, April 2, 2010.
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