Lesson 8 Post

Now that you have created your own blog and used it through the previous eight lessons, describe in detail how you will use your blogging skills in your classroom.

I think blogging, particularly, could be student led.  It would be interesting to place students into groups and have them monitor a blog about a particular unit for a couple of weeks.  It would be ideal to make the students the drivers of such conversations with given criteria and I would have oversight.  I really think something like that would be engaging for them and hold them accountable for their own and others' learning. 

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More than blogging, I think I will use discussion threads more in the classroom. We have access to Canvas for our student classrooms and I really want to incorporate discussion threads (prompted by a curriculum based question or a reflection question) more throughout the semester. I think it is a quick/easy way to publish information for the student's response - but also a way for students to dialogue with one another.  Further, it is an easy way for me to monitor student progress or understanding of a concept (depending on the question).