Rationale for educational blogging
This article shares excellent information on why blogging can be a powerful learning tool. The ideas shared in the article include:
*Students and adults can share information and knowledge
*Feeling of ownership over your blog, think for yourself, not focusing on what you think the teacher wants to hear as an answer
*Students receive worldwide recognition. Responses can encourage and motivate students to continue their
educational journey
*Provides a tool for personal reflection and evaluation-students can see their educational growth
*Students can feel the power of the published word. Teaches the student the value of public writing
20 Reasons why students should blog
This was an interesting article showing the benefits of blogging. Some of the reasons to have students blog include:
*Anyone can do it
*Students feel motivated to write. Students can add to it on their own time.
*Encourages reading-students read others work
*Increased confidence levels, other people's comments boost student's self esteem.
*Increased proofreading skills.
*Parents can access student work, family around the world can see work and comment on it.
*Assessment and self-evaluation tool.
*Students share and teach information with others.
How to Use Blogs in the Classroom
Describes great ways use blogs in the classroom. Create a blog to inform parents about daily class activities. Use it for a homeroom period to keep students informed and write freely about topics of their choosing (school appropriate). Also use the blog in class to extend a lesson from the classroom. Write thoughts in a blog to share with the rest of the students for an assignment.
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Rationale for educational blogging
This article shares excellent information on why blogging can be a powerful learning tool. The ideas shared in the article include:
*Students and adults can share information and knowledge
*Feeling of ownership over your blog, think for yourself, not focusing on what you think the teacher wants to hear as an answer
*Students receive worldwide recognition. Responses can encourage and motivate students to continue their
educational journey
*Provides a tool for personal reflection and evaluation-students can see their educational growth
*Students can feel the power of the published word. Teaches the student the value of public writing
20 Reasons why students should blog
This was an interesting article showing the benefits of blogging. Some of the reasons to have students blog include:
*Anyone can do it
*Students feel motivated to write. Students can add to it on their own time.
*Encourages reading-students read others work
*Increased confidence levels, other people's comments boost student's self esteem.
*Increased proofreading skills.
*Parents can access student work, family around the world can see work and comment on it.
*Assessment and self-evaluation tool.
*Students share and teach information with others.
How to Use Blogs in the Classroom
Describes great ways use blogs in the classroom. Create a blog to inform parents about daily class activities. Use it for a homeroom period to keep students informed and write freely about topics of their choosing (school appropriate). Also use the blog in class to extend a lesson from the classroom. Write thoughts in a blog to share with the rest of the students for an assignment.