I was excited when Dr. Schmidt announced that we would be blogging yet a little nervous because other people would actually be reading my writing and be commenting on my thoughts. One of our requirements is to blog about potential uses of blogging in the classroom. I'm going use this first blog to talk about some of the things that popped into my head when I heard that.
My first thoughts related to how I could use this related to literacy. It seemed like ideas kept popping into my head. The first thing I thought of was rather simple. I thought blogging would be a great way to get student's reactions on the book we are reading as a class. I could create a blog and allow children to post their thoughts or questions about the story and other students could respond. I also thought student's could create a blog about the books they are reading. Each student could give a summary and a recommendation of the book and other students could read that to decide if they would like to read the book. This also provides students with a chance to practice writing summaries. I can also see blogs being used for literature circles. After each student has been assigned a role, that student could post their finding on the blog for other students in the group to respond to.
This is only a small list of the possibilities of blogging in the classroom. I find that I will be adding a lot to this list as the semester rolls on.
Good, solid ideas of how to use a blog in a literacy classroom. All require students to respond to literature and react to other perspectives. Very powerful in terms of getting students to write and respond. Also, like how you have included "skills" - teaching them to write summaries. Use these tools to help teach concepts!
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