Blogging has potential!
Before I started my master's in technology integration, I would have told anyone who that blogging is outdated and no one uses it anymore. I would not have had my students create a blog. I am now eating my words. There have been many resources that I have been exploring the last couple weeks. One that stood out in my mind was a video clip called "Spotlight on Technology: Blogging in the Classroom." This clip featured a sixth-grade teacher, Kathy Martin, who asked students to start their own blog. Martin would require her students to do blog post, following a certain prompt, on their blogs. When she was first talking, I began thinking about my own online classroom. I thought there was no way my students would be willing to do this. Later in the video, it connected with me. She does not have them do a blog only to answer a prompt. That is part of it -- she does analyze their responses. However, by publishing their work online, it becomes a pub...