Tech class final

1. Class Blog
www.mrsdollinela.blogspot.com
July 16, 2012

2. What are they saying about blogs?
✤ “Class blogs can serve as a portal to foster a community of
learners” (Teaching Today).
✤ “... blogs let people WRITE, REACT, and SHARE using the web as a
participant” (Teachers First).

3. The Classroom Blog
✤ Update with homework assignments
✤ Book suggestions
✤ Storage place for important handouts
✤ Storage place for presentations
✤ Upcoming events
✤ Blog posts

4. What I hope to accomplish...
✤ Student responsibility
✤ Information sharing
✤ Ownership of work
✤ A planning tool
✤ A place to write and collaborate

5. Benefits
✤ Keeps students in and out of school updated
✤ Centralized storage for important handouts
✤ Notification spot for parents
✤ Allows for collaborative writing

6. Concerns
✤ Access
✤ Changes to homework assigned
✤ May not encourage organization
✤ Parent over involvement
✤ Management and assessment of blog posts

7. Procedures
✤ Update homework weekly
✤ Load handouts/presentations as they are passed out in class
✤ Tests, quizzes, and writing assignments identified
✤ At least one week lead time for blog posts

8. Assignment
✤ Writing prompt posted monthly
✤ Grading rubric
✤ Students asked to write one paragraph response
✤ Students asked to constructively comment on one post

9. Assessing
✤ Treated as a quiz grade
✤ Discuss the exemplars in class
✤ Final grade returned on grading checklist with comments

10. References
✤ Blogspot. (July 11, 2012). Help. Retrieved from http://
www.blogger.com/home
✤ Teaching Today. (July 11, 2012). Blog Basics. Retrieved from http://
teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/blog-basics
✤ Teachers First: Blog basics for the Classroom. Why Blog anyway? (July
11, 2012). Retrieved from http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/
blog/blogbasics.cfm