I\u2019ve discovered blogs are pretty cool in the classroom. I\u2019ve used them in a few different ways but I have yet to use a blog in a way that I actually want to \u2013 as portfolios for students, but I digress. I\u2019ve used blogs as places to store my own course material. I did not have a desk for a while so I used the blog to store all of my handouts\/tests\/marks etc. (a private one of course) and later I used one for a place to store information for my students to access (the course outline, updates on what we are doing\/extra practice\/homework assignments etc.). I\u2019ve also used a blog to make a webquest where students could comment.\u00a0 I\u2019ve enjoyed using them and feel that they are an excellent opportunity for working together.<\/p>\n
I have used blogger, weebly and wordpress and I found wordpress to be my favourite because of all of the options and it is very userfriendly.\u00a0 I found blogger to be simple but it did not have everything I was looking for.\u00a0 Weebly was too prescribed. I felt that I couldn\u2019t do everything I wanted there. From the list of blogs that this group provided I\u2019d like to try out Tumblr.\u00a0 It seems user-friendly and I like the graphics (I know I shouldn\u2019t judge a book by it\u2019s cover but . . . ).\u00a0 The platform I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll use is loudblog.\u00a0 It looks too complicated with too much writing. I feel like it would take me too long to figure it out.<\/p>\n
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From a critical standpoint blogs are a great venture as they provide for the collaborative part of a constructivist curriculum.\u00a0 One instance when I used a blog to ask question about a reading students felt like they got the easy answer because they could see the answers of others but I could see that the majority of them really took the time to critically think about what the others were saying before they answered. I felt like it provided them with more meaningful learning as they thought longer and harder about the topic than they would have if they hadn\u2019t been able to blog with others about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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