awakening

I am really starting to worry. I woke up at 3 AM thinking ab0ut what to post. This is getting scary. Needless to say, it did not take me long to realize that blogging could wait and that I would probably be able to come up with something a little later. Well, now that I am finally on. It has taken me 30 minutes to log into blogger. I have no idea what the problem is. It just finally popped up and let me in. It also did the same thing the other day. Alright, so what is my point? As a learner, I can understand students frustration when they face a challenge.

On Wednesday, Bill showed us examples of blogs used to create teacher webpages and school websites. This is a great idea. It makes the parents more accountable for their child's learning. I would make sure that comments could not be posted on the site. If the parents would like to contact me they could do it via email. This would also eleviate the waste of paper and pencils. At least three students newsletters are returned to me each week in their folder. At the end of the week, I am the one that throws it away.

Amy mentioned that their is a blogging site that reads the blog aloud to the student. I am wondering if this is one that Kindergarten would be able to use. I could have an older student type in the statements for the Kindergartener. But would the blog remain authentic or would the older student change the terminology and wording of the blog? There are so many unanswered questions.

After reading Chapter 1, of Blogs, Wikis, and Podcast: I can see how the Web has made significant changes since I was young. It is amazing how young students enter schools knowing how the use computers.

small progress each day

Whew! I am excited that I was able to create this blog. I have no experience using blog. Am I living in the Flintstone ages? I wonder if my students (our students in my school) have blogged. I have heard of the term blog from the morning news cast that I watch. They ask viewers to blog on a topic. I thought it was people going online and posting their opinions. I am excited to learn about blogs and how to use them with my class. One problem that will occur is that my students are so young that they are not able to spell proficiently and some are not able to write in complete phrases/statements. Several questions I would like to have answered at the end of this course are: What is blogging? How can I incorporate blogging into my curriculum? Are my students too young to participate in blogging? Am I able to create a blog and have my students respond to it as an assessment? So, without avail - LET THE BLOGGING BEGIN!