Blogging Discussion Questions Due Feb 12

 

How can you use blogs in your classroom? What is the purpose of blogging in the classroom?

 

-Teachers can share important information such as links, lessons, and newsletters to students via blogs

-Students and teachers can collaborate and post discussion questions (could be used for Book Clubs)

-Teachers can relate news to parents online that would normally be in a newsletter, parents can view students' work and projects 

-Teachers can share their lesson plans and get feedback and ideas from colleagues

-Teachers and parents can give and get feedback 
-Teachers can post tutorials on math lessons and social studies projects
-College online courses involve a lot of posting to discussion questions which essentially is blogging, so it is important to teach skills that go along with blogging at a young age so people are comfortable with it as an adult

This video expresses some of the ways to incorporate blogs into the classroom:

 

Where or how will blogs fit into your curriculum?

-Book Club: Have each group create a blog to discuss their book, each member can post their response for their job for that day (Questioner, reporter, word wizzard, etc.)
-Students can collaborate on group projects 
-Students can blog about places that they visit throughout the year, with their family or as a field trip and then pinpoint them on a virtual map on the blog
-Students can post their hypotheses about a science experiment before conducting the actual experiment in class
-The teacher can post a variety of journal prompts and have the students record their responses in the blog instead of on paper
-Students can report on a social issue in a blog post
-Students can pose questions on math assignments to be answered by the teacher or classmates