Three ways in which blogging can help me as a student and as a teacher:
-Blogging encourages students and teachers to find resources both online and offline. While reading other people's blogs it enables different perspectives to circulate whether it be inthe classroom, in a conversation or in another blog.
-As a student, blogging enables me to become comfortable with asking questions, making comments and promoting constructive criticism about subjects that I am interested in. As a tecaher in a community college, I teach a lot of non-traditional students and they will not ask questions during class because they do not want the attention focus on them. Blogging would enable them to see how other people in the class think and to create their own voice through writing.
-As an English teacher, blogging enabled me to find support from other first time teachers and they suggested different strategies that I could use with my students.
3 comments:
Leah, I like your idea that blogs as resources for both teachers and students. I have some favorite blogs which give me various interesting information and ideas. I believe your second idea is much to the point. In my culture, students usually don’t ask questions in front of others. I think blogging will contribute to students’ positive participation to a class.
Leah,
I think that it is interesting that you find bloggin to be the same as facebook and other networking systems. I can see how you feel like this. I never put thought into it until after reading your bolg. Facebook seems more like a social network rather than an educational tool. I see blogging as more of an educational tool than social network. But I guess either one can be social or educational depending on the users intent. Great Job!
Amy
Leah,
Don't forget to do mod 1 so that we all know more about what you are teaching and what you are interested in.
To build on what Amy said Facebook and MySpace are correctly called social blogging, but as Vicki Davis, an edublogger suggests, what we encourage our students to do should be called "educational blogging." shouln't it.
Dr. Burgos
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