Blogs have been long used by everyday people and professional writers a like. For some, blogging has been a gateway into a lucrative career. However, blogs are now just starting to make there way into the classroom. I personally started requiring all my students to keep a blog as a medium for turning in assignments. There are many pluses to using blogs, I can keep all my classes organized in Google Reader and grade them quickly. I can also allow the students 24 hours to turn in their work. They get the opportunity to go home and complete any parts of the assignment they couldn't finish in class. Some of the down sides of the blog might be limited to my class. I teach digital art and require my students to upload videos and images. Many of the free blogs do not have a way to upload videos without paying for a premium account. As a work around, the students upload videos to youtube.com and then embed the url in the blog post.
In researching some other uses for blogs in the classroom, I found this great website http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/2008/10/ways-to-use-blogs-in-your-classroom-and.html. There are some great suggestions on how you can utilize a blog for something as small as posting daily assignments to something as complicated as using it as a platform for students to deliver audio content.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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