Blogs, Wikis and Text Messaging: What are the Implications for Students with Learning Disabilities. By: Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) (2008) An Info Brief by the Center for Implementing Technology in Education Innovations in computer technology in the last 20 years have changed the way most people live, work, shop and communicate.
Education has changed, too. Wiki Ideas for the Classroom. Which Wiki is Right for You? How blogs can make the link. When children from Sandaig primary school, Glasgow, each wrote a poem for National Poetry Day last autumn, they could scarcely have imagined that their work would become the basis of a drama project at a school in the American south.
But after class teacher John Johnston published all 150 poems on the Glasgow school's blog - an easy-to-use online journal for children and staff - the feedback they received was immediate and global. 'The comments we got were just fabulous,' says Johnston, 'from America, from Britain, from Australia, all over the world. You see children growing a couple of inches in front of your eyes.' Carol Fuller, a teacher from South Cobb high school in Austell, Georgia, soon got in touch to ask if her class could write a drama piece using Sandaig children's poems as a starting point. 'They've made puppets, acted out this play,' says Johnston, 'and they're in the process of wrapping up the puppets, the backdrops, the whole kaboodle, and sending it to our school.
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If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. It’s Elementary! Blogging with Young Learners — Keeping Warm. Fairfax County, Virginia, Public Schools requires each classroom teacher to create and maintain a site through a password-protected, online system called Blackboard.
Teachers post announcements, contact information, and homework assignments. We include classroom blogs, a type of online journal, as an additional feature on our sites. When setting the blog features in Blackboard, the teacher can choose from a couple of options for students: students can be given the right to add blog entries or to make comments on entries posted by the teacher.
Our teachers use both options. Students’ identification numbers are their log-ins. Wikis. School Library Blogs: What's the Scoop? AASL Blog. Ideas for Using AASL Best Websites: Blendspace April 10, 2014 Posted by Heather Moorefield-Lang in Best Websites for Teaching and Learning, Technology.
Blendspace, one of AASL’s 2013 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning in the Manage and Organize category, offers both teachers and librarians a very intuitive, option-rich environment for sharing content online with students and other teachers. With Blendspace, you can: 14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging. Blogs (Weblogs) *Share your own school library media blog or your favorite blogs here: --Blogs to Share At its simplest, "A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.
Science Education on the Edge · Blogging in the Science Classroom: The Worksheet is Dead. One of the major changes that I made this year was to switch to using individual student blogs as the centerpiece of student assessment (the other major change was to implement standards-based grading).
How do I engage students in commenting on the class blog? » Stretching Forward. Challenge 3 for the Student Blogging activity hosted supported by Edublogs is all about comments. While taking part in the 30 days to kick start your blog challenge, and as I continue to write here, I have realized how important comments and conversation is. However, on our class web site , students do not comment that often. Usually, they only comment on posts when they have questions about a particular assignment. I was also curious about how often my kids are commenting (and checking the class web site), so I created a poll, and embedded it in our class site.
You can see the results below. Notes From McTeach: Learning to Blog Using Paper. That's right...you heard me!
And it's one of my favorite activities all year long. Paper Blogs. I use them to introduce my seventh graders to the idea of blogging and, more importantly, commenting. Let me just be clear right from the beginning. This was not my original idea! Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students. Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students I've used blogs in my classes for five years with students.
I've found them to be extremely helpful in certain circumstances but only when there is clarity for students in their use. Students who object to the inclusion of blogs in a course are usually objecting to what they perceive will be just one more task on top of a myriad of others or simply some busy work that will not benefit their learning. Older students can also reject the notion of "publication" that is inherent with blogging.
Each of these objections can be addressed by an effective and innovative instructor by careful planning and skillful management. 1. 2. The Courage To Blog With Students. Published Online: April 27, 2011 By Marsha Ratzel.
Learning.now . Using a Wiki to Promote Educational Blogging. The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging. Though my classes have done some limited blogging and communicating with other classes in our International Sister Classes Project, I’m seriously considering trying it more seriously with one of my classes next year. Because of that, I’ve been trying to learn more about other people’s experiences. Different Ways to Use Blogs and Wikis with Students. 1. Students can write posts about current events. This gives them the opportunity to read news stories, summarize them in their own words and then synthesize and evaluate those stories.
Informationfluency - Ten reasons why your next pathfinder should be a wiki. From my SLJ blog: What are pathfinders? Pathfinders lead researchers through information jungles. They make sense of the huge variety of information buckets. Compare them all. How-to Week, Day 1 - Using Wikispaces. Wiki Wisdom: How to Use an Online Classroom Clearinghouse. Teacher Louise Maine offers tips for using wikis in class. You don't need to be a technology whiz to bring the power of wikis to your classroom, says Punxsutawney Area High School teacher Louise Maine. In a year and a half since discovering the educational potential of this Web tool, she has learned enough to use a wiki as the hub for almost everything she and her science students do. Eight Ways To Use School Wikis.