May 21, 2007

Blogging Reflections 1

To blog or not to blog? That is the question.

I like the idea of blogging for many classes. For example, I think blogging would be a great addition in ELA classes for lit. circles. Students could see what students in different sections thought of the same book. It also is way for students to feel that their work is being shared with a larger audience, not just an assignment to complete for a teacher.

I have been thinking about how blogging could be beneficial in my classroom. Because I teach beginning level courses, I was considering maybe adding current event articles that are relevant to the target language and having students post their opinions on a blog. Or possibly writing cultural differences as posts and students publish their opinions. This is just an initial thought.

May 17, 2007

Cool Blogs

Hi, welcome to my first post. I put a whole bunch of blogs links on the my sidebar. A few that I would recommend checking out, if you have limited time are:
EdBlog Insights-links to an enormous amount of educational blogs
Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Let me know what you think.