What challenges, possibilities, and opportunities do you face when, like this group in the photo below who also crossed centuries, you leave our week-long institute and return to your own classrooms?
Crossing Centuries – 21st Century Teaching and Learning
Published August 1, 2008 Tech Insitute 2008 4 CommentsTags: 21st century literacies, a3wp, a3wp tech institute
I think the way that blogging will be most useful to me at this point is for parent communication. I am an elementary teacher. It is a fabulous way to share our classroom with families.
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Blogging is communication in print, unlike any other writing that we ask students to do in school. While we talk about writing being communication with an audience, it rarely is…usually, writing is a performance.
With blogging, students can be immersed in the world of print in a “natural” way, a way that echoes great notes passed in junior high or text messages sent from boring meetings. With a moderated blog, it’s somewhere between the “social language” of conversation and the “academic language” of writing papers. It allows students to learn to use letters in addition to sound, and to see ideas last rather than disappear into the air.
I enjoy using my Blogsite. It’s fun to receive a comment from students. This year, I’m not using as often as I would like, but I will be assigning “Homework” this next semester to Blog our site. I will use the Quote of the Week or other sentence starters for the students to use. To ‘motivate’ them, their comments will be graded.