Blogging About Blogging for 1.21.12

In class today, we discussed how blogging is now being used for educational purposes in classrooms, as well as for recreation. Professor Riley showed us an example using his wife's classroom page, and I must say, I was surprised. I will be the first to admit that I am not the most technologically adept (which is a little unusual for my generation) and I never understood why anyone would want to have a page to post about their lives. I never would have thought that blogging about class projects would have been so interesting for the students. It was absolutely great to read about how enthusiastic all of the students were about their projects, and how excited they were to share what they had learned with others! I think that in my own classroom, especially if I end up teaching middle school, that blogging would be a great way to share videos of different musicians, recordings of songs we're working on in class, as well as general classroom information. I think it would also be a great place for kids to come and share their own musical tastes so that I could get a sense of their musical personalities. I also liked that all of the comments and posts could be approved by the teacher, because I think keeping the site as a safe, positive learning environment would be so important! If I end up teaching middle school, this would be a great learning tool, and I am excited about using it in my classroom!