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Shona shared with me yesterday a website she has created to use with her classes. This is a great project for teachers to embark upon as it soon becomes quite clear how easy making a website is. While in itself it is only a place for students to visit it also increases their skills at navigating websites effectively. Shona is going to take that one step further this year by helping her students to set up their own blog site (one particular kind of website). She will then be asking her students to blog about various topics that they will be studying as well as other current events occurring around the world. Interestingly, we have many students who have begun this blogging journey on their own, writing about topics that they have a passion for. Why not embrace it and enable our students to connect globally! Shona's Thoughts on this JourneyIf Taylor Swift can blog then why can’t I? Admittedly, I’m not really a big Taylor Swift fan but blogging is a very popular and is increasingly common in popular culture and the workplace. Like any form of writing- blogging does involve a set of skills that teachers can help students with. Google Classroom is a great way to forward resources such as worksheets, slideshows and notes to students but I have found so far that it is mainly one-way traffic. By asking the students in my classes to set up their own blogs that will be linked to our home class blog I hope that they will be more inclined to share and reflect. Blogs can be published instantly and to a wide audience so students will need to be more mindful of what they write. Students will be able to track their progress on their blogs and hopefully enjoy sharing their ideas and receiving feedback by a range of different people and not just their teacher. One thing that I became acutely aware of with the building of this teachers help site is that it is never finished. Now my teachers OCD struggled with that initially!!! However you get used to the fact that a website/blog is essentially a living book, that twists and turns as it needs to and changes with time. Now I am ok with it being in a consistent state of being unfinished as I know that if I tried to finish it now (when technology is moving even faster) it will be inaccurate by tomorrow! Anyway, thanks Shona for sharing your ideas with us, click on the link below to visit Shona's site. Year 11 Social Studies - McRae2016 |
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