I recently read an article titled Fifth Graders Soar into the Blogosphere on Education World's technology channel site. The teacher, Gillian Ryan, describes how she requires her students to enter entries into a blog. She says that this type of assignment keeps her students engaged and excited about writing because they aren't writing an entry on a piece of notebook paper to her, instead they are able to share their thoughts with the whole cyber world. She describes how she uses blogging in every subject area in her classroom. The blog allows her to look into the minds of her students in a way she never had been able to before. The ideas, questions, and thoughts that come out in the blogs are so much more profound and in depth from her students that she shares how the blogging has truly changed they was she will teach forever.
I found this article to be very inspiring and hope to find some interesting ways to incorporate blogs into my third grade classroom!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech253.shtml
Jessica -- good sharing. Try hyperlinking a text to your website URL instead of just posting the URL. * Dr. B
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