blog, blog, blog… a way to get your students “talking” about learning

BLOG, BLOG, BLOG… A WAY TO GET YOUR

STUDENTS “TALKING” ABOUT LEARNING

Presented by Kelly Shea

and Victoria Peterson

Tools We Will Be Using

The Talk Button

Make sure youare posting to the main room!

Chat BoxYes/No Tool

Hand Raising Tool

Tools We Will Be Using

Arrow Key

Text Tool

Who is our audience?Use the text tool to type on the screen the grades and subjects that you teach.

Focus and Objectives

Focus Question: How can educators use blogging to enhance the learning experience for students in the content area of reading in the P-12 learning environment?

Objective: The learners will be able to identify uses for blogging in the content area of reading.

Have you ever used a blog with your students?

YES NO

I would like to, but who has

time?!?

Why Blog?

•Encourages shy students to participate•Creates a sense of community in a classroom•Extra reading and writing practice•Creates a way to communicate and/or respond outside of class.•Students develop a desire to write correctly, knowing that others will see their writing.

First Things First!

What are some things you should

do when first beginning a blog

in your classroom?

First Things First!

Administrative

SupportParental

PermissionMonitor Postings

Respond in aTimely Manner

Take SafetyPrecautions

First Things First!

Established and Reputable Blog Sites

Signed AUP for EachStudent

Have Clear and ConciseExpectations and Consequences

What can elementary school students “talk”

about?

•Post original fact and opinion sentences

•Word walls

•Respond to literature

•Classroom debate

•Post sentences which include current vocabulary and spelling words

•Students post facts on an assigned topic (ie. Frogs) and then class compiles facts and writes an informational paper.

What can elementary school students “talk”

about?

What can middle school students “talk” about?

•Pen-Pals with students from other states…or even other countries!!

•Share poetry

•Random acts of kindness…

•Classroom debate

•Start a book club!

•Private journals between student/teacher

•Reflections (example: successes/failures at school?)

What can middle school students “talk” about?

What can high school students “talk” about?

•Record steps and research process for research papers/assignments

•Role playing

•Study guide

•Classroom suggestion “box”

•Continuing stories

•Vocabulary add-to stories

•Reflecting on or sequencing event in a novel

•Reflections (example: successes/failures at school?)

•Create and post podcasts

What can high school students “talk” about?

Blogging Across the Curriculum

Blogging Across the Curriculum•Fictional blog of a historical

figure•Use Google Earth to “pin” favorite vacation spots on the map•Create KWL charts•Science Fair projects•Timelines•Political elections-positions•Media interviews•Math concepts/problem solving

A Well Designed Elementary School Blog

A Well Designed Middle School Blog

????Questions????

ResourcesMiss McMillan's 7th Grade Bloghttp://wiki.ctkschool.org/users/mcmillank/

Nicole Gleason 2nd Grade Blog http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=221080&assignmentid=9452

Education World Article on Blogging http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech217.shtml

Classroom Blogging: Blogging for Beginnershttp://www.classroomblogging.com/blogging-for-beginners

Resourcing the Curriculum: Blogging in the Classroomhttp://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs/