10 (again)

This is the second post I wrote at me.edu.au:

10

The other day as I was wandering around the Net I found Tom Barrett’s blog over at edublogs.org. That’s the sort of thing I’m intending to achieve here in my blog. The description he uses to describe his blog is “Space for me to explore my ideas and experiences of ICT in my classroom.”

I’m really liking the idea of using blogs in my classes. I’d like my students to use the blog at least once a week, probably every double lesson, as a journal. I’m thinking of giving them a list of suggestions of things to blog about. Which may include some (or all) of the following:

• Reflect on what you’ve learnt/achieved so far
• Describe what you would like to learn/achieve
  • within the current topic/project
  • within the umbrella of the subject
• Reflect on how you have worked with others
• Reflect on how you have worked so far.

I’ll come back to this list at a later date (maybe find a resource about journalling before I go much furthur with this idea).

I also found a very interesting page over at edublogs about how/why to use blogs in classroom settings. Maybe I can find some other sources for suggestions like this.

Apart from journalling I’m sure we could find other uses for blogs (as edublogs suggest). It might be a useful tool to help my students collaborate.

Tags: thought blogging
Posted at 10:42AM Nov 05, 2008 by Claire Adams