Thing 2

Tips For Student Blogging (guest post by @mrodz308)

This post in thing 2 was interesting because it shows that when students have independence with their knowledge base they can achieve more motivation to keep exploring.  The key elements for the 10 tips seem to be: student ownership of the work, trust and independence.  Getting students to take control of their education and allow them to get their work viewed for in a larger audience.  Students seemed to be expressing pride in how their work is being viewed beyond the classroom.  In my classes, I have been using DOJO to connect with parents but in the future, blogging seems to be a much more effective way to share student work with parents and relatives.

Huzzah class blog

This link gave me a number of great ideas.  At our school, we have many activities going on during the day such as assemblies, guest speakers and recognition.  This would be a great way to share these events with the public and beyond.  Implementation of the blog could be done in my Social Studies class or in our ELA classes.  This would help students and parents with the events our school has on a daily basis and the students can share what they are excited about.

With some other teachers and myself, we run an after school club for archery and another club for Lego building.  School blogging would let us share what activities we will accomplish and the blog will allow students to communicate with others that are doing similar activities in their schools.  Blogging will help students become better writers and communicators which are some of the goals we have for the after school programs.

Looking through a number of tabs, there are many strategies that seem to be very beneficial for student work.  In one of the tabs a school uses blogs and they follow students through their grade levels.  This allows the school to build a running record of student work that teachers could go back and review.  This type of blogging can show progress students have made over their years and it can be transferred to a different school if necessary.  It would be a common tool that the whole school can work with