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3. “ Blogging? It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson!” Education World Lorrie Jackson writes that blogging, even in an elementary setting, has become a useful and important tool in the classroom. Children as young as fourth grade write about recent news stories. Blogging is simple and there is an abundance of Web-based programs to get started, such as Blogger, LiveJournal, and KidzBlog. Blogs in an educational setting are useful for a number of reason. First, it’s widely known that students write better when they have a real audience, rather than just a teacher reading their writing. Every student is familiar with technology, so why not incorporate it into the classroom? Click image to view website
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5. I found this article very easy to read and also would consider it a good resource for teachers looking for ways to incorporate technology into the classroom. The article cover how to start a blog, ideas on what to blog about, and most important, how to be safe blogging.
6. “ Panelists: Blog are changing education” eSchool News Click image to view website Dennis Pierce writes about the “Best of the Education Blog” Awards and how far educational blogging has come since its existence. Like the previous article by Lorrie Jackson, Pierce agrees that students benefit from blogging by feeling that they are writing to a more genuine audience and are allowed more room for creativity. He states that one strength almost all students have in common is their tech-savvyness, so why not put it to good used?
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8. I thought this article was great, especially where it talked about giving awards for blogging. Really, why shouldn’t they be given? Awards are given for other writing contests and this one was definitely a new, fresh idea that should be adopted nation or even world-wide. Not only are students already being creative, but they are putting forth a greater effort because of the chance of winning. I know that if our school had participated in making blogs and we would’ve known about a contest, hundreds of us would enter and work on our writing, resulting in a lot more time spent actually working on our writing than we did just being in the classroom.
9. “ The Prose of Blogging (and a Few Cons, Too)” T H E Journal Click image to view website Rama Ramaswami is in support of blogging and writes about different teachers and their evidence as to how blogging improves students writing, as well as touching on why some educators are a little more hesitant to begin blogging in the classroom- one of the reasons being if there is no purpose or it doesn’t fit into instruction. Although blogging for education has not been around a while, he says that studies that have been conducted show blogging leads to great improvement in writing and overall organization.
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11. I found Ramaswami to be very knowledgeable about the concept of blogging and although he found many aspects that may be less educational than others, he made a good point that overall, children greatly benefit from blogging because of their familiarity with technology and computers. Ramaswami did a good job in writing this article because besides including how to incorporate blogging, he also mentioned the do-not’s of blogging and the most effective ways for it to be used in a school setting. The evidence he collected was very eye-opening because of the overall agreeance among students that blogging is a writing innovator for them.
12. Just like the blog we created on Blogger in this class helped me to write more and connect with other students, blogging in classrooms all across the nation have become a positive asset that teachers adopt who realize how prevelent technology is among youth. Blogging should be approached with caution and an open-mind, and that way the best possible outcome will happen- students showing their creativity and improving their writing skills!
