Last week I launched my Classroom Blog for my current year 3 class. It is something I've been wanting to do for some time and I'm glad that I have. It has many positive outcomes for students already. The biggest being a motivational tool for writing and collaborating with their peers about their learning.
As a learning tool blogging is a great opportunity for the students to create content, share, reflect on their learning, extend their knowledge and collaborate with others. Students in my class will have the opportunity to post reports or reflections about their work. Using the internet students will have opportunities at school or at home (if internet access is available) to collaborate with their peers, and have opportunities to work with students from other classes, schools or even countries.
Blogging will enable students to have fun while improving their literacy, numeracy and ICT (Information Communication Technology) skills. It is also a great opportunity to establish early appropriate online behaviours.
Over the coming weeks I plan to blog about how I went about setting up my blog and the resources I use with in it.
