I Support Blogging

I think blogging is a useful resource in that it provides students and teachers to interact with one another. I would use blogging in grade three social studies as I see it being a useful resource for when the students are studying geography. From
Clarence Fisher’s point of view, he talks about being able to read the view point of students through blogging, from countries such as Australia and Brazil. I think this is a very useful resource as kids can post their thoughts or creations (drawings) on the blog for others to comment on and learn from. The reason I would use blogging for grade three geography is that the students could look at pictures of what the world looks like by interacting with other students through blogging. Blogging also has its advantages for students and teachers, which are mentioned at this website. For students, blogging provides the opportunity for reflective journaling, assignment submission, and e-portfolios. For teachers, blogging provides networking and personal knowledge sharing, the chance to share instructional tips to students, course announcements, and links. Of course with having an online section in the classroom causes the teacher to deal with web safety. The teacher would be able to ensure the students were blogging safely if he/she requires the students to limit their comments option to only users and to only allow certain people (e-mail addresses) to look at their page and blogs. Blogging is a new source of technology that I am positive about using in my classroom and encourage other teachers to do the same.