Questions from the third chapter

Please choose two of the three choices from below

1. Middlebury College professor Barbara Ganley asks,How can a teacher expect her students to blog if she doesn't do it herself? Guiding students by demonstrating appropriate ways of blogging offers one of the best ways of introducing students to a safer and more rewarding internet experience. Finding good examples to work off of is more difficult for us non-natives. Chapter three offers a number of sites to visit for interesting educational blogs. Visit one of those sites and write a response about what you found that would be relevant to any classroom. (List of sites on page 58)

2. Blogging with students and parents (or some form of interaction) will be part of our everyday lives as teachers sometime in the near future. From what you've read so far, how is this going to impact your classroom, your prep time, and your time at home? How could this be a better time management tool you?

3. Getting everyone involved in blogging seems pretty daunting, perhaps using a computer lab time to investigate how that might go would be an interesting activity. A class could go through the blogging process with you and once the blog site was established you could ask one thought provoking question per cycle and have each child respond. This is easier with 3rd and up but might be the start of an upward spiral for future years. Perhaps in the lower grades you could invite two or three students to respond, with the help of a teacher if necessary. This might be a good extension activity for some students (and parents if you invited them to participate). Seeing their names by their responses might be a good incentive to participate again.