In our frustration over using mywebspiration, I looked into other education sites we might use and got a few great ideas after this week's reading assignments. Chapter Six (p. 117) discussed educational use of blogs created by experts, teachers, and students. I went to Edublog's site and thought it was useful. Has anyone any experience with this blog site or any of the ones mentioned in this chapter [i.e., Kidlink]?
This chapter also discussed how blogs can be used in the classroom. It was helpful to know that a teacher can preview a student's post for errors and inappropriate content before publishing. And that registering names only can provide some security. And blogs can be linked to wikis and vice versa. I also found another blog that RATES educational blogs and from there found other useful Wikispaces and Blogs. Here's one that was particularly useful to model which I hope to try out: http://thereadingworkshop.wikispaces.com/
Other questions I have, I guess I should just fool around to TEST how blogs can be previewed, edited, deleted, and used as an interactive [vs. collaborative] library resources "mindtool". Our text gave me some great ideas but do I how to move on to next step of implementation in a traditional curriculum "mindset"? Many teachers are intimidated by Wikispaces and Blogs.
I am curious about your webspiration experience, as I found it counter intuitive at times, and hard to alter the zoom to get a decent picture to work with.
ReplyDeleteI too see that teachers are intimidated by wikis and blogs, what do you think is the underlying problem? That they may lose a job or students adding content when they are the "expert"?