Wednesday, September 16, 2009
How I plan to use this bog...
I have struggled thinking about how I will use this blog in my classroom. I teach first grade and we spend the first part of the year learning how to turn on the computer and use the mouse. Fortunatly, the students do learn fast! By the end of the year they are typing journal entries on Microsoft Word. So, I do feel that the first graders could each write on the blog sometime during the last semester. Until then would love to use this blog to display student work and communicate with parents. I could give weekly blog updates with what we've been doing in class and what the parents should be working on at home with their children. I could include websites that have child friendly programs that support our curriculum at school. It would be fun to include pictures so by the end of the year we'd have our own digital yearbook. Now that I have considered using the blog for more than just student posts, I am constantly having new ideas of how it could be a vital tool for my classroom community!
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Katey,
ReplyDeleteI really like your idea on how to incorporate blogs into your first grade classroom. It would be a great way for you to post student work and most importantly open up dialog at home between your students and their parents about that work. A lot of times in schools today no matter what grade there always seems to be a little less school to home communication due in part to how busy of lives most people lead. This would be a very quick and easy tool for you to use to provide parents an opportunity to see what you have been doing in class and also give them some resources so they can foster the learning process at home.
Katey,
ReplyDeleteI think first graders would really enjoy using blogs and it would motivate them to continually use a computer and to continually write. I think it would be very beneficial if you even encouraged them to write on it after they are out of your class. Also the blog can be a place for parents to get involved if they have a computer. I do not see any problems with how you might use blogs within your classroom, I just think you could expand the ideas more.
Jenna
Katey,
ReplyDeleteI like your ideas and your enthusiam for using the blogs in your classroom! How will you keep the parents without computers in the loop? Will you copy some of the blogs from time to time for them so they do not feel excluded and can remain a part of what your class is doing?
This is a great idea. I am sure the kids will love it. Whenever you have parents night you can show them some of the work the kids are doing, and I am sure you are in constant contact with your parents so why not set it up so that they can monitor their children also. With the way the world is moving today education starts from the womb. See how motivated these first graders are?? Check them in a couple years.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments. Lynn, one off my biggest concerns about posting information on the computers is all of my families that do not have computer access at home. I have come to the conclusion that although I would post student work and parent information on a blog, I would not make it anything that they absolutely had to read. I would strongly encourage that they do and I would even provide them with information on our school computer lab's open hours and possible local libraries or business’s who have public computer access. I think that there will always be reasons for us to not use a form of technology and for the next span of time there will be families without computers who are not willing to use one outside their home, I really believe that in a few years adults will just realize that they need access to the internet, and hopefully there will be more options for this to happen.
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