Using Blogging in the learning Environment-BP1

Educational Blogging has multiple uses, such as: completing writing assignments, creating ongoing portfolios of samples of students' writing, using the blog as a reading response journal. There is a very informative slide presentation at http://www.slideshare.net entitled Educational Uses of Blogs and Tags created by Diana Dell who is a representative of Sqool Techs, LLC. It has some great information for all educators, especially those working with students in writing courses.

Another site I visited is http://accessmylibrary.com. I was impressed with this site. It has over 30,000,000 (thirty million) articles of top publications found in libraries across the country. On this particular web site are several links to other web sites that are specific to educators. These different sites utilize web 2.0 tools to provide the educator with ideas for classroom solutions as is specified in a site entitled Connect Ed. There are forums where you can share ideas, conduct research, which we are all doing for our AR project. You can also find educational grant sources.

In their search box, I typed in a search for how blogging can help readers to improve and immediately ten articles loaded that targeted my subject. Since I am working on a similar target for my AR project, I typed in struggling readers and another 34 sites loaded. I browsed through several and have bookmarked sites to explore in depth at a later date.

I am liking this course more and more. As I previously have stated, I was totally unaware of how much technology is available for us to use with our students. The problem is that the school districts are not keeping up with the forward movement in technology. As a child I remember reading comic books that displayed things that we are using in our lives today, such as computers, lasers, micro chips, and the list goes on. Well, as a child and I am sure the writers thought they were writing science fiction. Ha, wonder if of them are still living to see that their fictional gadgets have become a reality? Just like our school districts need to move out of the industrial age and into the technological age so that our students will be better prepared to go out into the universe prepared for whatever comes their way!