Hello All and Welcome to my Blog. As I said in my introduction on Moodle, I am a high school computer teacher and use blogs in my classes. I love blogger, it's my choice of blog sites. It's easy to use and easier to navigate. For my Online Experience classes, we use a blog to post journals of the topic we are discussing that week. I post on the blog Monday and the students have until Friday to answer the specific questions that I give them. It could be about a website they have to look at or an online article to read. Either way, I find it to be more efficient than a pencil and paper. Plus, it gives me the opportunity to teach the students about blogs and how they are used. Check it out if you'd like:
I have also used blogs for personal reasons. Last year when I went on Maternity Leave from school, I created a blog for my students to follow about when I had the baby and I used it to post pictures and all that fun stuff.
I also belong to a blog that my close friends and I created to keep up with each other and post pictures of our families and fun pictures of when we all get together. Our latest post is called "The biggest Loser" and we are all in a race to lose weight and get in shape for spring!!
My goal this year is to have each of my students create a blog of their own. Hopefully we'll have enough time (snow days can be very disrupting!).
What a great way to keep in touch with your students while you were away on leave!
ReplyDeleteI bet the students loved keeping track of you and your baby. That's terrific! You sound like a great teacher.
ReplyDeleteHow old are your students? I was thinking about doing something with my 6th grade students. Do you think they're too young?
ReplyDeleteThree WONDERFUL ways to blog and for different reasons too!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great class blog! Are these HS students? They can create their own account/username/password to log in with. Makes it a whole lot easier for the teacher. Have any of your students complained about not having access outside of school? That's a legitimate concern of many teachers who would like to blog with their students.
ReplyDeleteYes, they are mostly freshman and a couple of sophomores. I have them all create a a google account before they start. They need it to comment. I teach computers so they usually have time in class. It kind of helps my dilemma of, some kids working/typing faster than others. This way, if they finish early, they can work on their blog post.
ReplyDeleteHi Janelle,
ReplyDeleteI hope to learn enough to be able to incorprate blogging into my science classes. I am inspired with some of your ideas, thanks!
I want to start a blog for my students to follow too. I was also thinking of adding extra credit possibilities into the mix to encourage them to follow the blog.
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