I am preparing to teach a tenth grade science course. I am working on different, interesting ways to include blogger in my classroom. Please comment with any ideas of how you think I could use blogger to pique my students interest in the topics they will be learning.
To get your students excited about learning, you could link different websites, apps, Utube videos, games, or web quest on the subject that you are learning. Students could blog about what they are studying for the week or post pictures of interesting projects they have created. They could blog about an experiment or lab they are working on and update with the progress.
ReplyDeleteWhat I like about this format is that you can see individual contributions, the time a student makes a contribution, and the discussions remain in order and are not manipulated by multiple users like a wiki could. What is also great about a blog is how discussions become archived, allowing you to keep record of older post but also allowing for it to be organized.
ReplyDeleteHelen took all of the good ideas, but she's right, because you can post links without infringing on copyrights, you can take advantage of the hundreds of educational science videos about a wide variety of topics. This is very useful since there are many students that learn more effectively using multimedia as compared to lecture or textbook based learning.
ReplyDeleteI would enjoy using somewhat of a building block method based upon your lesson plans themselves. Have a student start with the basic idea and then have other students "blog" the next step in the sequence. This could be repeated until the objective is met. This would require students to use the 8 steps we learned about in this weeks lesson, as well as getting them to learn the lesson. I would probably start out by ordering the students by number and letting them loose!
ReplyDeleteI would say to use blogger, you can have a page and input interesting videos that students could comment on. It wouldn't directly have them make a blog, but naturally if you open in up and have them comment, I believe they would play around the website themselves. I had a science teacher who did this with another blogging website and most of the students ended up adding extra videos to her post or in their comments. With her method we naturally got interested in contributing to the website, which made us learn about it also.
ReplyDeleteI would use blogger to post fun science questions pertaining to the lesson before class. Under the question, I would post links to resources students could use to answer the question. I would also post videoes and links to experiments they could try at home for the lesson they are learning that day.
ReplyDeleteBlogger is a really cool way to incorporate team-based learning into the classroom. You could assign a research topic to groups, and have them blog about it weekly and comment on each others' topics. I feel like this would be a fun and innovative way to bring blogging into your classroom.
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