BLOGS...

Blogs...Wow, where to start... 

At first, this puts me back to when I was in college and blogged a few times a week.  I also used to follow a lot of my friends' blogs in college...

However, now I'm in a different mind set and have to think about how I could use blogging in my classroom.  I think it would be fun to blog with my students as a whole class to start.  After they understand how it works, then I could give them an opportunity to blog in small groups and finally let them try to blog individually. 

Some ways I thought about how I can use blogging in my classroom:

• in reading: I could let them blog about how they can relate/connect themselves to characters in the story or relate to the author's message.
• in Soc. St. and Science we could use blogging to review what we've learned or what we want to learn more about

I think students would enjoy blogging. They will find it interesting to read and write blogs from their classmates.  It would be a good way for them to learn from each other.  This could also be a more effective way for engage students who don't enjoy reading or writing.