I viewed the blog titled: "Our class' blog." This was a blog set up by a teacher for her first grade students to use and post their blogs. I found the blogs very interesting, there were cartoon looking pictures of the teacher and the other students when you looked at their names. The pictures looked like pictures they some how drew on the computer and installed them to their blog. The site was also set up with a section for teacher and student comments. It looked like this class blog was being used so students could communicate with other class mates or even just have another way to do writing activities besides paper and pencil writing. The teacher must have helped the students alot because they were only first grader and when you read their blog postings you could tell they could not spell or write well yet. I think the audience for the blog is the teacher and other students. The reason I think this is because the teacher has plases set up on the blog for teacher and student blogs and assignments. I looked like when reading the student blogs they were communicating back and forth to the teacher. The purpose of the blog is so the teachers and students can show what they are doing in their classroom. I can see clearly that this blog is still being used, because I read some blogs from students that posted new writing this October. I think the blogging tool does have potential in the class room, it gives teachers a way to get their students involved using technology and it's a great way to share ideas. The only problem I can see with blogging in the classroom is the lack of time to spend teaching students how to do it.
The second blog I looked at was titled "Technology Article" blogging, my dear Watson it's elementary. It looked as though it was created by a fourth grade teacher who reall was encouraging educators to use blogging in their own classroom. It had lots of information about how to get started blogging. It also had bloggs that talked about using this kind of technology in elementary school. The author wrote about how elemetary school students write better when they kno they will have a real life audience. The author said that used to be had but now students can write through blogger and can publish their writing on the web. The audience for this blogg was other educators and people interested to see how technology could be used in the classroom. The purpose of this blog is to get people interested in blogging by telling them why they should blog. It is also showing the progress being made usng blogger with fourth grade students. From what I can tell this blog is still beig used and updated periodically. I think using the blogs in the elementary school class room is great, it just seems like it would take alot of teacher supervision becuase it will be complicated getting the students started.
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Seth, the "Our class' blog" sounds very interesting. I think it is amazing that teachers are getting first grade students acclimated with blogging and using technology in the classroom. I have a second grader who absolutely loves the computer. I know that if her teacher were to integrate blogging into their classroom, she (and I) would be avid fans!
I think this is a great idea. I know with my students in my classes I have student taught - publishing their work gives them a sense of ownership and pride in their work. It makes me hesitant to use it in an elementary school classroom because they are not as technology savvy. Also, it would take longer to teach them.
hmmm.... while i am all for getting students comfortable with technology I am a little unconvinced that is something important that first grade students need to be learning. There is so much more that first graders need to be learning. I am not totally against it. I guess i am just riding the fence.
I realize after your writing that this was probably set mostly for teachers and paretns but i also think that this gopes to show what we as teachers have to do in the very near future. this shows what the world is becoming with students. If there are blogs open for first graders now just think what it is going to be like in the very near future. I know at one my field experinces that students take their ipods to class to do activities!
Seth, I think it is a great idea for students to use blogging for their classes. It is amazing to me that children as young as kindergarten and first grade are using blogs for classwork. It is really interesting to think about what other technology will be avaliable for young children to use in the future.
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