Blog Journal #7
Teacher pages on school websites are an amazing tool to help students, parents, and teachers to stay informed and effectively communicate. Although my alma mater didn’t require teachers to maintain a set of class pages, I was able to find a local high school that did. Leon High School’s common literature teacher has a very well organized and informative teacher website that includes student resources, assignment due dates, and classroom updates. The classroom blog also made it very easy to locate the teacher’s information in order for parents or students to contact her.
I fully plan to incorporate technology such as a classroom blog into my teaching practices. My classroom blog will be a platform for students and parents to visit that includes resources I discuss in class, announcements, assignments, important classroom documents, a classroom calendar, and much more. I would also like to create a student forum so that my students can communicate with one another. This communication would be monitored to avoid cheating, but I think it would be nice to allow students to collaborate.
My experience with the wiki platform came with a learning curve. However, PBWorks was an effective tool that allowed my classmates and I to collaborate on the group assignment. The only thing I disliked about the platform is that I had difficulties in formatting my content. I would incorporate a wiki with my future K-12 students in a similar manner as our previous assignment and allow them to work together to complete a group assignment.
I think using blogs in a classroom is an excellent idea since it is another way for students to communicate and where students can share their thoughts and opinions on different topics! I have also had difficulties formatting content however find it gets easier the more I do it.
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