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Jamie CampJustification for blogging--the comments are great. Look at DaveC comment--good idea to have parents choose pseudonym with their kids.
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Peggy GeorgeBlog post by David Warlick inviting responses from teachers to answer questions about student blogging. * So why should students be blogging in the classroom?
* Are your students blogging?
* What’s the benefit?
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Joyce SeitzingerEvidence & anecdotes of why blogging works - what the benefits are for students to learn to reflect and to have a real audience.
blogs student evidence writing authentic authentic_assessment
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Blogging has opened up a new and
relevant form of composition in my classroom, one that requires
students to speak knowledgeably and authoritatively for an authentic
audience and one that encourages deeper research through hyper-
linking. Parents love that short blogging assignments keep students
writing regularly, and students not adept at academic essay writing
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Lisa Parisi posted the following on September 4, 2008 at 5:38 pm.
I am starting my third year of blogging with fifth graders. I work in an extremely high achieving district on Long Island in NY. The expectations for our students are much higher than the average district. And I cannot say enough positives about blogging.
I have found that blogging has improved their writing abilities tremendously. Having a world-wide audience reading their work makes my students put more effort into their vocabulary use, their editing skills, and their ideas. They have also learned how to better communicate. They have learned how to make positive and constructive comments, while being respectful and considerate of the reader. They have made contacts with other students through blogs, learning how to use html code to improve the look of their site, learning about some online sites to view, learning about new books to read and movies to attend. And their reading skills have improved simply because they are more motivated to read. Many choose to read blogs during their independent reading time.
Now I will also tell you that I like the moderation portion of class blogmeister. (Other blogs have this ability too.) Nothing goes onto my class site without my prior approval..not a blog or a comment or a picture or a video. This assures me, parents, and administrators that no unsafe or unkind practices will take place there.
Good luck!
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At the beginning of the 2007/08 school year I had many at risk students who were not engaged in school. After introducing them to blogging their writing flourished. On a daily basis they were asking to write on their blogs. Every morning they would enter the classroom questioning how many people had read their writing. We started to document the number of places that were reading our writing on a huge map in the classroom. They went from not caring about their writing to becoming proficient at editing and revising their written work. So their audience went from a few individuals who read their writing on our writing wall in the classroom to thousands of readers across the world. I also feel compelled to tell you that I have students blogging that have physical and mental disabilities. For example, one of my students has Downs Syndrome and last year she had many individuals comment on her writing. Her audience did not know that she had a disability and she was delighted with the number of comments that she received about her writing. Blogging definitely evens the “playing field”. I cannot express enough the importance of blogging in the classroom. I truly feel that blogging is one way that we can meet the needs of the 21st century students.
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