Purposeful Blogging

Well I have been thinking about my blog and the blogs of others in the school and cluster today. I found the below video on blogging in the classroom which gave me lots of ideas. This link tho made me really think about why I blog. As a school and probably cluster I think we have a range of different thoughts about why we should blog. after reading these points I came up with an action plan or GAP analysis on purposeful blogging. I would Love to know what others think about it.

To See a copy of My Action Plan Click here

I am really thinking about how people can be clear and happy about blogging in their classroom.

Blogging

This video is very dry but full of great information about blogging. It made me think about how I could be using blogging in the classroom.

WEB 2.0 Wonders

Well today I now have a few new things I'm going to work on. The big thing for me now is to not rush out an d do everything. I'm going to make a real effort to stop, think and integrate. Really making my ict integration explicit. I think in the past I have always rushed in done one or two one off pieces of work and then moved on to the next wonder.

This term I have focused a lot on pod casting in different ways in writing and a little bit in maths. I am going to continue with this building on what the children have learned this term.

IT IS SO HARD!

There is so much I want to try after todays sessions, voicethread, goanimate, etc.

I will keep up with perfecting my craft for now.

Blogging Magic!

It was really good to see the blogging successes people have experienced today in the two sharing sessions. People have been really doing amazing stuff in such a short period of time.

Some key points were:

1. Questions are important for prompting and scaffolding comments
2. Bribery is essential for engaging parents
3. Linking the tools into the commenting and posts has encouraged the thinking.
4. A rubric for commenting may facilitate greater quality of comments.
5. Blogging should be a process.
   

How do we sustain the commenting.

Miriam Tuohy

Miriam raises some interesting points:

1. There is a real need to teach children to search and discriminate information they need.
2. It is important for us all (especially the kids) to recognise info sources that have affected our thinking. It helps us go back and check it, share our understanding, and the whole recognising the author.
3. Sharing the information and our findings are really effective and purposeful.
4. As teachers we need to assess/ reflect on how good/useful our information sources are.
5. The purpose of research is to create knowledge and understanding is not merely *more* information.

I found these points really interesting and made me think a lot about the planning that I am doing now for term 3. How am I going to make sure that I am doing this??????