This blog was begun as an assignment for a grad class I am currently taking. I am enjoying it so much that I am definitely going to continue with it after the class is over. It also gave me the idea to use blogs in my classroom. I set up another blog for my humanities class and am having all of my students create their own in order to share their writing and comment on each others ideas. This format will allow them to get more than just my perspective on their work in a platform that will be more viable than peer editing in class. Along with our classroom blog we will be studying the use of blogs in other formats, including news, entertainment and communication. When I approached the topic with my class I was surprised at how many students were not aware of this tool. The students who knew about them were familiar with them mostly from myspace but did not realize that there was more to blogging than simply using it as an online diary. Creating this blog has taught me so much about the world of blogging beyond personal journaling and I hope to do the same for my students.
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