After reading the blog about blogging! I agree that it is important in teaching to reflect on our practices and blogging can be one vehicle to do this. This course and my previous posts are already a start on reflecting about how Web 2.0 can, will and should or could be used in my classroom. It also reminded me of 14 learner-centered principles that the district use to incorporate based on A Learner-Centered Perspective by Barbara L McCombs. Principle 5 was entitled - Thinking about Thinking, it dealt with how this process can help "facilitate creative and critical thinking" I think it also applies to thinking about teaching and reflecting on our practices. This gives me more incentive to have the students blog, so they can think about their own thought processes and learn from it.
If you start blogging with your students, you'll find that they will start sharing resources with one another and build really comprehensive digital portfolios. I recommend sticking with Blogger as your platform, this will allow easy integration of our Google products.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking those learner centered principles. That was informative for me. I love the idea of us blogging with our students - I know our students already share fun stuff with us through email but it'd be cool to have everyone feeling free to share. We could also use blogs as a way for absent students to keep on top of what was done in class. I do fear that this means we are always on our computers...but perhaps we are there already!
ReplyDeleteOn beautiful summer days I have been way too long on the computer! Life is not always better with Tech! Regardless, I am really interested in doing a blog and would love to figure out how that would like in practice with your students. So if you have some insights along the way, please keep sharing!
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