Online education communities can be a great tool for sharing with students in other places or at times other thant classroom time. It kind of makes me think of the old fashion pen pals with a turbo charge. I have heard it used to relay messages about assignmnets, to do assignments and to just pass on new information. I thing at my school there are still many who do not have internet access to have blogging as an out of school assignement but kids could be given time to work on it during the day or afterschool in the library. In Kindergarten I would use a group blog for either the whole class or small groups. then we can do shared reading /writing while blogging. then share with other kinder groups in our building( or out).
2. What point stood out to you from the commenting advice? Use commenting as a way to teach tech etiquettely . I liked the way both talked about how to not only make better coments but also how to elicit better comments.
3. What five blogs did you select for your comments? so far Jill Sherrill, Maria/Alejandra Palermo,
5 comments:
I like your suggestion on shared reading and writing with the blog. What about sharing with other kindergarten classes in the district? You make some really great points on the etiquette needed when commenting on blogs. Beginning with the youngest group and teaching web 'manners' sounds like a great idea!
I think your idea about a class blog for shared reading and writing is a great idea. I can imagine you using it as a morning message or an end of the day "What we learned today" blog. Good thinking!
Thank you for having a proactive attitude about the challenges our students face in not having access to the internet. I think allowing students to use the classroom computers or library computers is an excellent suggestion for how we could make this work for our school! Students can still participate independently online without having an in-home computer, we just have to use our resources.
I love that you compared PNLs to pen pals. I think this would be a great way to have the students communicate with other peers than those at their school. This would be a great way to share and learn more detail without using the white board. The students would feel more in control which could possible lead to more curiosity. They would want to know more to be able to share it in their blogg.
I also love how you picked up on the manners. Students need to be taught etiquette. It's not something they can just pick up on.
I also like the shared reading and writing with the blogs. It would be a unique and I think a fun way to get students to writing reflections and just a great journaling technique.
Post a Comment