The blogg process as I see it can be a very positive and productive tool for teachers using it in the classroom. Just how this class (Digital Media) was constructed with Professor Vogel creating
a Blog page for the class. Having the one main blog and everyone creating their own blog,
having the various topics for reading, posing questions, commenting on the readings and
also posting on our personal blogs. I think blogging could be used at any grade level and with any subject as long as there is some guidance for the students to maximize their experience.
The negatives I find with Blogging would be how do you help a student similar to my
situation, who is participating, but not really participating. They may read the articles,
post a comment here and there. How do you challenge the student to participate or rather
get feed back from the student to see if they are having any difficulties. Maybe there is
only fear or underlying embarrassment going on with the student. Would that even be a
problem with the students of today with them being Digital Natives. Is it just a challenge
for the Digital Immigrants or (post secondary students). I also think blogging is useful with the integration of other resources. I recently took a class on creating a Web Quest. Within the Web Quest one of the assignments I created for the class was for the students to create a blog and post comments on their findings and feelings on the subject they had to research.
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