it’s been eons since any example of blogs related to education has been shared. was reading Anne D.’s blog and noted that she has found a very impressive blog maintained by a superintendent Dr. Joni Samples of Glenn County in California. Anne has highlighted some interesting posts from the blog and you can never guess how Dr. Joni embarked on blogging. read and find out, enjoy 🙂
When Parents Contribute to Student Blogs�
Read this post off Will Richardson’s blog about one of Anne Davis’s student blogs, it shows an example of an engaging exchange of parent and child through the child’s blog comments. Have you thought of using this idea to engage our parents in their children’s education ?
Blogging and Pedagogy
Anne Davis’s latest post at ESN. I have extracted some of the key ideas that resonates as I was reading …
… Blogs are unique in the ways they offer teachers incredible possibilities to build on the pedagogy. For instance, blogs can provide an opportunity to change our writing instruction to make it more meaningful and relevant for our students…
Blogging can be a place where we can make connections and dig deeper into how and what we are learning, both student and teacher…. Students are creating meanings that make sense to them because they are constructing them, not having pieces delivered to them that they just repeat…
On Audience and Comments … Students are used to the teacher being the only audience for their work. The realization that others think that what they have to say is important is empowering…
On Voice… Blogs give students a place for that voice to be heard by many. Many students that would be hesitant to speak in a classroom will share their ideas on a blog.
Other ideas include Conversations & Dialogue, Ownership & Choices, and Archives. Read the full posting here 🙂
Chinese Language Teachers’ Blogs
after this long while, it’s back to what i started doing 2 years ago, back to blogs for chinese language teaching and learning, here are some blogs by chinese (language) teachers 🙂
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?Run Deep?
?Innova Student Circle?
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there are definitely more cl teachers’ blogs out there, let me have the links if you can 🙂 ?????????
Panelists: Blogs are changing education
At a ceremony to honor excellence in education blogging yesterday, winners of the first-ever eSchool News “Best of the Education Blog” Awards talked about the significance of blogging in education during a panel discussion. All agreed: The impact that blogging is having on teaching and learning is profound.
Some of the quotes which I find useful/interesting as I scan the report:
- “Kids are getting excited and engaged in literacy through blogging, commenting, and sharing ideas”
- There is an excitement that comes from writing for a real, authentic audience instead of a circular file seen only by the teacher
- Our students are tech-savvy, and we need to make sure we take advantage of this
- today’s digital tools make blogging extremely easy, especially when compared with the effort it used to take to upload files online via the File Transfer Protocol or build a web page using Hypertext Markup Language
- Sharing ideas with the world today is “so easy,” Fryer said. “Now, it doesn’t take anything but a web browser to engage in these conversations.
- You shouldn’t ban the use of an instructional tool such as blogs, simply because it might be dangerous if misused; instead, you should teach students about the proper–and safe–use of the tool and then enforce the rules.
The full article goes here.
[source: eSN online]