Student Blog

Since creating this blog for myself, I have really started to wonder how my students would react to using a blog themselves. I began to ponder different ways for them to use this piece of technolgy. I want to make sure students are truly getting something out of its use instead of just another item to check off their to do list for the day. As a teacher, I like to have fun teaching, and as a student I want the same thing. I began to think of an easy way to start them on the process of using a blog. The first thing that came to mind was using it to communicate basic skills and thoughts for the day. A modified message board if you will.

I have talked the idea over with my assistant since he knows how I operate my classroom and how the students behave. Tomorrow, I will explain to the students what I will be doing and how this is will be set up. Every morning my students have morning work to complete to start the day off with review and get their brains juiced up for the day. After they finish their morning work, I will give them the opportunity to log into my class webpage, click on the link to the blog, and have students read the latest message I wrote to them. This might be a question I ask them to see if they can explain a skill, I might just have open conversations with them about what they like most in teaching, etc. I want them to know they have a say in what happens in the classroom (to a point).

Hopefully by the next post I will have some feedback to write to you about!