Blogging

Blogging assignment page

[|Examen Final (Esp. I) 08-09]

[|Teaching Tips: A Vision for classroom blogging] This article begins with how to introduce blogging and generating some intrest and excitement. It goes on to say how they are able to read each others in order to learn from their own mistakes. I like that it creates another community outside of the classroom and students are able to make connections with others. I am unsure how I will try to implement this in my class because the year is almost over for my spanish II classes but my spanish I classes are going to be finishing early and maybe it could be something we could mess around with.

[|Classroom 2.0] Before this class had started, I have never heard of the term 2.0. I am still trying to wrap my brain around this but from what I am gathering, it is a way for students to have some kind of technology component incorporated in their learning. The quesion that was posed in this site was "Blogging as assigments". A lot of people shared their views and ideas but what seemed to be a small bump in the road for some is the "blocking" that our computers do to certain sites. Some shared ideas on what sites to go to so that they don't get blocked but from what I read, some of these sites only let up to 15 students sign up at a time. What happens if I have more then 15 students in class??? Tom Daacord had some very useful ideas on ways to set up assignments. Some talked about using a rubric for the students posting and another spoke about how a lot of the blogging the students did was not thought provoking. How do we get around that????

[|Welcome to Edublogs 3.0] After reading the last article, I searched for this thing called Edublogs. Apprently they have upgraded their program and it has a lot of new features. From what I have read, there have been some mixed reviews. Like always, with the start of anything new technology wise, there will always be some bugs to work out. I am unsure on when these upgrades were released but I'm sure most of the kinks will be worked out soon. The only thing that I need to research now is some other program called Wordpress. Not sure what it is but from what they were discussing, it sounds like an older program.

[|Teaching in Mexico] I am not sure how I came across this Blog but I did like some of the pictures and topics that he had to discuss. I don't think that I go into too much depth when it comes to culture. This Blog made me think that this might be a way where we might be able to go and explore a little more in to detail. I am not sure how I would direct the students to these sites. Since I just set up my very 1st blog site, is there a way where I can put this on my page and have them redirected???? Will our school block these sites??? What blogs are safe so as to not run into anything inappropriate for school???

[|Keeping Students Cyber Safe] After reading all these articles and picking the ones that I liked, I came across this one, "Keeping Students Cyber Safe". I was very excited to maybe start some blogging in the classroom until I read this article on things to look out for. The one that sticks out the most is parent permission to have their sons/daughers works being posted online. It never occurred to me that this might be a problem but after reading it, it seems like there has to be some agreement between the school and the parents. I don't know if anyone in our school does blogging assignments. I also came across risks of having the students actual face being put on the blogging site. They have certain picture images as well as not using students real names to protect the students identity. I have not thought about the risks that might arise when blogging. Are there other possible risks out there are not stated in this article??? What do I do with parents who don't agree with blogging???