11-13-2008
Blogger is an excellent website tool for both students and teachers to use in the classroom. This website is geared towards students and teachers; actually it’s a public website for anyone to use. My younger students could use this as a classroom journal. I will give them a topic to write about for some of their English writing assignments and let them write them on the computer in class. I will of course have to get permission from the parents to allow them to use it because it is a public website. I will probably have to make sure my students understand what is appropriate to write on a class blog and how to be safe on this website and teach them about internet safety.
But blogger will allow my students to be creative in their color choices, layout and picture for their journal profile and they will be able to use a computer, a medium my students will be comfortable enough with to write these journal entries for our class.
For my older students I will not only have them do a journal entry for our class on their blog every day as homework but I will also create a classroom blog similar to the one I have in my English class in college right now that will allow my students to write about any topic they wish within reason. They will be required to post blogs or comment on a blog at least 2 times a month for the school year.
I also enjoy using blogger because of my experience using it in college and have found it to be a great way to interact with my fellow students and my teacher. I hope my students will feel the same way as they write on the class blog. Another way it can be useful for teachers is that I can also write comments on the class blog and enjoy learning from my students.
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