Blogger

Publish your first post on your blog. Summarize your exploration of blogs. Do you feel you will use blogs with your students? If so, how do you plan on using them? If not, why? What do you think is the greatest challenge to teachers and districts who want to use blogs with their students? Highlight at least one example of how you might use a blog in your classroom and how this lesson/activity will meet one or more of theNETS-S.

I started a blog over the summer and I have used it for the first time this year.

I like using it, and the students like it as well. I am having difficulty uploading some items on it at school, due to the fact that we have so much security blocking on the computers at school. However, some of the students have commented on the fact that they have looked at the videos I have uploaded and the videos were very helpful for their first research report. Because of this, I think the biggest challenge is being able to use blogs at school without the blocking of the sites.

I just recently used the blog this past week to discuss what plagiarism is with the students. The students loved the video of the college student who “pretended” he did a research paper without even going through the process. The students loved it, and they said they showed it to their parents at home.