Teachers all over the country are using blogs. They are doing so to connect their classroom work with parents as well as interacting their students more through the web. Melanie Sullivan is a teacher in Needham, Massachusets and says she uses the blogs because parents like to know whats going on in the classroom. And the more the parents know about what she is trying to accomplish in the classroom, the less they will get upset. They parents also enjoy it because it allows them to hold conversations with their children about school.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2006/09/07/teachers_take_bulletin_boards_online/
Mrs. Marisa L. Dudiak, a second grade teacher in Maryland, also uses blogs for her students. It is interesting because she teaches 2nd grade but is still able to use it. After her class returned from a field trip on a Native American farm, she had the students log into the class blog page. There the students were able to write about what they learned. This allows the students to be interactive with technology and lets the parents better understand what is going on at the fieldtrips. She says the students enjoy writing on the blog much more than in a typical journal. Teachers enjoy them because they are easy to sustain.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E5D7113FF93AA2575BC0A9629C8B63
After reading these articles, I think it makes a lot of sense for teachers to use blogs in their classroom. I feel like it is fun for the students and gets away from the repetitiveness of writing in a journal for assignments or using e-mail. It allows the whole class to interact with one another. Hopefully more teachers will learn about the benefits of blogs for their classrooms and use to to their advantage.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2006/09/07/teachers_take_bulletin_boards_online/
Mrs. Marisa L. Dudiak, a second grade teacher in Maryland, also uses blogs for her students. It is interesting because she teaches 2nd grade but is still able to use it. After her class returned from a field trip on a Native American farm, she had the students log into the class blog page. There the students were able to write about what they learned. This allows the students to be interactive with technology and lets the parents better understand what is going on at the fieldtrips. She says the students enjoy writing on the blog much more than in a typical journal. Teachers enjoy them because they are easy to sustain.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E5D7113FF93AA2575BC0A9629C8B63
After reading these articles, I think it makes a lot of sense for teachers to use blogs in their classroom. I feel like it is fun for the students and gets away from the repetitiveness of writing in a journal for assignments or using e-mail. It allows the whole class to interact with one another. Hopefully more teachers will learn about the benefits of blogs for their classrooms and use to to their advantage.
3 comments:
EXCELLENT!!!!! Matt you are doing great. Keep up the quality of your work.
I agree with Melanie Sullivan. As a parent I feel better when I can see what my children are learning and their grades.
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