Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Testing

I would break the policy of my home institution to set one of these of for my students. How sad. This is great.

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  1. I know what you mean. This would be awesome to use in the classroom; my students would actually be excited to write! I

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  2. I have read about some 'safe' type of student blogs but I can't remember where they are. We'll have to research!

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  3. When would you use it? I have computers for every student - would you set aside time each day? I tried it with my older kids last year and we tried one where we met at night - it didn't work so well...

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  4. I had a student with a severe stutter and was able to communicate with him using the internet. It wasn't a blog but a site called Habbo. In the future I will set up a blogging station like this to aid in communication with students!

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  5. I would love to be be able to assign a reading and then have students blog about the assignment-either an open blog like we did yesterday/this morning, or a more specific blog where I present a question and they comment on it.

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  6. I don't anticipate that problem. Students can get to computer labs during studyhall. I have computers in my rooms. And students could blog at home-most students anyway. I just don't see me getting the site unblocked though. Too much potential for misbehavior.

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  7. Think what this could do for the summer. Students loose so much during June, July, and August. My district assigns summer reading. I'd love to hear from students who have questions or comments about what they are reading. I'm not talking anything "heavy" here.

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