Wednesday, September 16, 2009
How to use blogger in the classroom
As I think about blogging, I am wondering why I would use this in my classroom. What would be the benefit of the blogging? What would you think about using a blog as bell work? I would post a prompt on the blog and ask the students to respond to the prompt. The students would not only respond to the prompt, but they would also respond to the other students answers. If I did use the prompt, how long do you think I should allow the students each morning to respond and read? I also would like to know if anyone has used this method before. Has it worked? Should there be a new prompt each day, each week, each month?
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Do all your students have access to a computer or laptop? If not, how would you go about using a blog for bell work? I am having serious issues with blogging as well. Maybe we can help each other out. If I was a Social Studies teacher I would love to blog in the classroom. I would post debatable issues every week and have the students debate the topic all week. Language Arts teachers could post thought provoking issues in a story they are reading and let the students share their thoughts. Are there topics related to business that you could use that would be similar to this? I would make it week to week, so the students don't forget about it, or loose interest.
ReplyDeleteYou have a good concept, but there are some major challenges that you would be faced with. The biggest one is computers. You would have to have a computer for every student so that they could reply to the bell work. Also another challenge would be time. Bell work is only intended to last for 3 to 5 minutes. In my opinion that would not be enough time for the students to respond the post and then respond to their classmates. I think blogs in your business classroom would work because as the teacher you could post a business plan and have the students respond what is good about the business plan and what they would change to make it better. I think this would allow the students to use higher order thinking skills and build their knowledge on the framework of how a business works.
ReplyDeleteAre you a business teacher that teaches in a classroom with a computer for each of your students? If you do have access to these computers, you could have your students do different parts of the prompt each day which should take less time.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above postings, without individual computers, the bell work would be painstakely time consuming. I plan to use my classroom blog as a week to week assignment. Each of my hours will have to responde by a different day, so I can work through the moderating and actual posting. Imagine if you are grading each student on the response and their responses to others. How long do you think it would take to track that all down? Try a simpler approach.
ReplyDeleteDo you think you will roll out the blogging this school year?
ReplyDeleteMy biggest challenge with the prompting would be ideas since I am not the ELA teacher. Maybe the ELA teacher will want me to use her reading prompts.
Interesting.
I do have a full set of computers in my classroom. When it comes to time it would take me to grade all the posting. I am going to use a formmative approach where not all postings will be graded. There is an issue of time. I was planning on spending ten minutes each day of the blogging. I have the students for 84 minutes each day and if I spend 10 minutes that would be enough time for them to log on read 5 minutes of postings and then respond the the few they want to respond to.
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