Blogs in my Future Classroom

Blogs can function in a number of ways in a classroom setting. The first way I’d like to use a blog is to form a classroom community. I noticed when we started blogging in here, thought we didn’t talk to each other much in class, I felt like I knew a little bit about everyone else in the classroom because I had time to browse through their profiles. I think that really aided in the close feeling of the class. It also was helpful because we only met once a week. I think it would also be a great way for students to get to know a little more about me by reading my profile. A blog can also be used to post classroom schedules, due dates, or pictures. Parents, I think, would enjoy seeing that as well. I think I’d also love to use the blog as a forum to discuss a text or texts we are studying. I’d love to use a blog to study/discuss a text we are reading. For example, if the homework is to read a chapter or two, maybe there could be a guiding question students have to respond to or I could ask them to write a free response to reading. I also like the way that we have been using online forums to edit/response to peer work. I think this would be a great experience for kids to use the internet to read and respond to one another’s work. I really look forward to implementing blogs in my future classroom curriculum and the experiences I’ve had with blogging this semester have really given me a lot of wonderful ideas.