I have created my personal blog on www.blogspot.com if anyone would like to check it out feel free the address is http://coriforbes.blogspot.com . I will also be posting all my assignments on my blog if anyone wants to comment on them I would be glad to hear from you.
Prior to this course I have never been on a blog nor seen one, but it seems from what I have read in the articles “Literacy in the Classroom”, “Educational Blogging” and also creating my own blog I can see the relevance of blogging being a great way of communicating in the future.
Blogging to me would be a great way for students to express themselves in all different ways seeing that the internet has endless resources for them. Some types of activities that you as a teacher could perform are: everyday journals, reading assignments, writing assignments, and also any type of homework that students can comment on each other’s work (constructive criticism).
Online communicating in my personal opinion is becoming the way of the future. The reason why I say this is the students of tomorrow should be up to date in all aspects of the internet. Blogging is a very powerful tool for students to be creative and gives them confidence in their work knowing that it will be posted to the world. I think that I am going to try my best to incorporate blogging in my daily class work next year. Some problems I can see is how can you mark the work being posted, I know you can comment on it but, is the student going to follow up on checking his or her mistakes. Another problem would be bullying. Bullying is not only an issue at school it is now becoming an issue at home on the Internet. With the freedom of a blog you have no control over what each student’s posts or comments on. But just like everything else in teaching, you have to know the dynamics of your class to know what will work best for them.
In conclusion there are many pros to blogging and although I am looking forward to this school year to end (last day) I am excited to start and try a blog with my class next year if the dynamics allows it.
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