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Blogging with Grade Three Students
January 19, 2009 | Tagged blogging, primary | 4 Comments
Field Study—Blogging with Grade 3’s
I am starting my second Field Study project in T Lite. This term I am focussing on blogging. I am curious about the impact that a classroom blog has on student writing. I hope the wider audience that the blog offers will encourage my students to put more effort into their writing and motivate the more reluctant writers in my class to share their ideas.
I have read many interesting articles on the subject. These are two I particularly enjoyed…
Huffaker, David, The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom
Kajder, Sara and Bull, Glen Scaffolding for Struggling Students: Reading and Writing with Blogs
(This article lists 10 instructional activities that involve blogs that have been implemented by classroom teachers.)
Does anyone have a classroom blog? Any advice? Suggestions?
Once our blog gets up and running, I will post a link so you can have a look.
Thanks! Aleesha Dillen
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Sounds great! Will the students have access at home and at school? How much access will your class have to the computers @ school?
Thanks Jo-Anne! The students will be able to read or respond to our blog at home if they have Internet access.
We have one period a week in our lab at school (45 min) and we have a small pod of computers in the hall outside our room that they can use at any time. I plan to send them out in pairs or small groups during our morning reading time to read our blogs and see how it goes from there.
Aleesha:
Sounds like a great idea – how are your kids enjoying writing on the blog. My class has made very short comments about their classmates puppets but have not yet put anything of substance on.
I think its swell to get elementary students writing this way combined of course with in-class writing. I read somewhere that its when you get your first ‘comment’ on your blog that it really gets exciting. This is the challenge, to first get student peers, other classes and then perhaps other schools and beyond. With my own blogging, I am finding that i use it more like a journal, reflections etc. I’m seeing older students who basically are ‘blogging’ in Facebook, using ‘notes’ and getting feedback as well-or tagging…