Journal #7

Bloggers Cafe-A Vision for Classroom Blogging
By:Anne Davis

Anne Davis created an assignment which included university students to blog with elementary students. Mrs. Davis said it was really excited to see how the students learned different perspectives between them and their learning styles. She encourages teachers everywhere to use this helpful tool to bring out the shy students and to encourage those who are always the first to speak to comment on other blogs. Comments are fuel for this way of teaching. Students love comments on their blogs.

How can I create a safe environment to use blogging in my classroom?

I can create a friends list, where only students in this friends list can acquire other blogs. I can report any person who should not be on this students blog. I will have to make sure that I supervise all posts for verbal content as well as read all comments on any given students blog.

Should I have my students use blogs throughout the entire school year?

I can make an assignment out of it for a portion of the time or make a simple assignment out of it for the entire time. Or I could even just have the students make comments or ask questions on my own blog so that they are able to reach me in and out of the classroom giving appropriate time to respond that is.