Thursday, April 22, 2010

Journal #6 (NETS I, V)

In this activity i was able to use Nets V as i posted a journal, but i was also able to use NETS I with my creativity and student learning that takes place when making a blog. In this journal entry i explained what blogging was and how it is used.  I also took the role of a teacher and decided what age levels could use blogging in the classroom.

BLOGGING!
Blogging is an online public weblog where you can post entires about just about anything. In a blog it's interesting to learn about what people are learning and doing. It's convieniant when you have friends who live far away, blogging makes it possible to keep in touch with them through the internet. Wesley Fryer from the tools wants to use blogging in his elementary class. He feels that it will help with students getting better at typing, but finds it difficult for them to interact with each other. Emily on the other hang is having her 7th and 8th grade students blog twice a month. She feels that it is a good way to incorporate lots of web 2.0 tools into the classroom. I think that blogging is an awesome idea. It can be used at just about any age level as Wesley is using it for elementary, and Emily uses it for middle school students, and I'm in college and using it. It's nice that it can be made public or private so that just a teacher and the peers can read it, or the whole world! Blogging not only helps with learning and becoming profiencet at typing, but it helps with sentence building and making journals. The best part of all; blogging can be used in any class subject, and it's free and easy to create!

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