Blog Exploration #1

An example of how to use it in the classroom, seems very similar to what I would like to do with some of my classes:

http://smith9h0708.blogspot.com/

I am curious about a variety of things that happened in her classroom, such as fishbowls and the Wikified Research project. I guess the next thing to do is to look to see if the teacher has a webpage where I might find these details, or, gasp, I suppose I could actually try to contact her! (OK, figured out that I couldn't figure out how to do that.)

Another neat thing that I found in this blog was the use of a daily scribe, who posted the happenings of the day on the blog each day, including homework.

One of the most interesting things I found in this blog was that the kids seemed to be real and honest and it was even rather scary. I like my teacher evaluations for the information that I get, but having them out there in the world for ANYONE to read. Wow. That takes more courage than I’m sure I could find.

It was great to get to read the students’ entries though because they really seemed to feel free to express their personalities. Also, they were full of the idiosyncrasies of actual student writing (lack of paragraphing being my particular issue).