My article "Blog On" by Catherine Poling

In the article “Blog On” by Catherine Poling, she shares with readers how the different kinds of blogs have helped her to connect more deeply with the students and other staff at her school. She talks about and describes in detail these different blogs based on her own experiences of having used them. The types of blogs she has used are individual blogs, classroom blogs, collaborative blogs, and staff development blog. Individual blogs are set up to be used by each person individually in a way of keeping a journal type of blog. Each day students can write their own thoughts and ideas about a certain topic or they can just write about their day. Classroom blogs are created for students to communicate with each other in a classroom setting. There students can write comments to each other when doing research, or when they want each other’s opinion or feedback about a specific thing. Collaborative blogs are set up for students to be able to interact with students from other grade level or classroom. In these blogs students can share experiences from school with each other, for example if there was a career fair, students from two classrooms can communicate with each other about what they thought about the career fair. Staff development blogs are designed for teachers and staff to communicate with each other on a daily basis about events, meeting or other issues going on in school. She mentions how it helps teachers interact with each other more specially when everyone is busy all the time and they barely see or talk to each other. This article was very interesting to me because I got a better understanding about the different kinds of blogs there are and how they can be used. I believe she was very confident I using those particular blogs and at the end they were very resourceful and worked out well with her students. I would like to have more information about how to obtain these blogs and instructions on setting them up in a classroom setting. In the future I think I will definitely be using blogs because technology is moving fast and kids now days are very high tech so this will be beneficial in a classroom setting. I can see mu students interacting with each other without being shy or nervous about having to share personally with someone else in person.

 

References

Poling, C. (2005). Blog on: Building communication and collaboration among staff and students.Learning and Leading with Technology, 32(6), 1-4. Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/store/my-virtual-products