Google Blogger
There are two blogs I created to use with students; one was created to be used with a project-based weekend enrichment program, where ELL and Special education students practice reading and writing skills while using the school garden as the focus of learning. My role with these students was as the gardening ‘expert’ who they could ask questions and gather information from: http://schoolyardgardener.blogspot.com/
This second blog I created was for use with my adult audience, “Master Gardener Volunteers” who attend a 10-week training course in horticulture and gardening education: http://2011mastergardener.blogspot.com/. The blog was created to add another layer of learning and student-student interaction, to an otherwise traditional course offering, where student sit in 5 hours of lectures each week, with much interaction with one another.
Blogs allow bloggers to post, respond, and have access to text, pictures, hyperlinks and other web 2.0 technologies.
Blogs are easy to use, although I found that security features in public schools have issues with allowing students to use privatized blogs that I created.
In the classroom, students can produce a blog that is a learning-centered platform where students can post researched information, engage in thoughtful discussion, and formulate solutions to problem-based lessons. Students can create and maintain a blog using Blogger to publish this information for their peers and school community.
Conclusion: Blogger is worth learning, because it allows students to create, express and interact with one another, while utilizing a tool that links to additional web resources.
There are two blogs I created to use with students; one was created to be used with a project-based weekend enrichment program, where ELL and Special education students practice reading and writing skills while using the school garden as the focus of learning. My role with these students was as the gardening ‘expert’ who they could ask questions and gather information from: http://schoolyardgardener.blogspot.com/
This second blog I created was for use with my adult audience, “Master Gardener Volunteers” who attend a 10-week training course in horticulture and gardening education: http://2011mastergardener.blogspot.com/. The blog was created to add another layer of learning and student-student interaction, to an otherwise traditional course offering, where student sit in 5 hours of lectures each week, with much interaction with one another.
Blogs allow bloggers to post, respond, and have access to text, pictures, hyperlinks and other web 2.0 technologies.
Blogs are easy to use, although I found that security features in public schools have issues with allowing students to use privatized blogs that I created.
In the classroom, students can produce a blog that is a learning-centered platform where students can post researched information, engage in thoughtful discussion, and formulate solutions to problem-based lessons. Students can create and maintain a blog using Blogger to publish this information for their peers and school community.
Conclusion: Blogger is worth learning, because it allows students to create, express and interact with one another, while utilizing a tool that links to additional web resources.
Hi, Thanks for introducing Blogger. For education purpose, Edublogs is also a very good alternative to Google's Blogger.
ReplyDeletehttp://edublogs.org/