Blogging Reflections

After spending the last week chatting about blogging, I still support blogging. I think that blogging should be offered over a continuum like the one presented by Kim Cofino  in google.docs:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RIxA7kRSkT-eEPNtsIyxFehS4AIm1UtFzAhhPmKVCfk/edit?authkey=CKeq9boM

I had a alot of fun investigating the privacy and security features of Live Journal this week. While I am quite comfortable with blogging in general, I did not feel comfortable offering LJ as a blogging option to my students.  While their security features are solid once you are “inside” LJ, their website home page is not ok for K-12 viewers> the topics were controversial and there is no way that as a teacher I could monitor them all.

The best thing about this week was learning that I am really ok with blogging in the classroom, I just believe that it is a skill that needs to be developed across the whole school career (and beyond).

I think that we missed out on discussing this week were the other blogs that could be used, that offer security and “acceptable” home pages to k-12 students. Some of these include:

blogger

Edublogs

wordpress

weebly

bloglines

edmodo

ning

And those that we don’t alwasy think of as blogs:

google.docs

wikispaces

Anyway..on that note, I will leave the link to my first blog ever, an ode to Alan November

http://verenanz.edublogs.org/

Verena:)

References:

http://www.teach42.com/2007/03/06/top-10-free-web-20-sites-for-educators-and-a-few-honorable-mentions/

http://techitupwebtools.pbworks.com/w/page/20240031/FrontPage