Blogs

Technically – //according to// [|//Merriam-Webster//]//, “a blog is a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.”//
 * What's a blog?**


 * A blog is... A place where numerous users can share, collaborate, and communicate thoughts, ideas, reflections, or questions. A place that presents a unique opportunity to ENGAGE each other using today’s technology.

How can we**
 * engage our students with a classroom blog?**
 * 1) Create a blog that’s about books! There are probably tons of books your students need to read during the school year – why not do their reviews via blog posts?
 * 2) Create a blog that showcases student poetry, short stories, etc…
 * 3) Create a blog where students can post about math concepts learned throughout the year – it can provide examples and solutions to the problems/concepts.
 * 4) Create a blog where students can list/talk about hypotheses before classroom science experiments! This will allow them to see what other students are predicting and open up doors to even more thinking on their part! When the experiment is done – it can be posted and compared.
 * 5) Create a blog where students pick an artist and write a short story/biography on them including podcasting, photos, etc!
 * 6) Create a blog where students pick a social topic to educate others about. Sky’s the limit on the different types of multimedia you can use on this one!
 * 7) Create a blog where students pick a musical instruments they want or have played. They can find sound files of the instrument, famous musicians that played it, even the pros and cons!
 * 8) Create a blog where your students write about their favorite holidays and why.
 * 9) Create a blog where your students can reflect on field trips! Their favorite part, their least favorite part, what they didn’t get to do/see, and what they learned!
 * 10) Create a blog to communicate missed projects/assignments, information, calendars, reminders…really anything to your students or parents!


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