I decided I was finally ready to incorporate a blog into my class. I decided that I didn't really want to manage it too much so I'm making the kids the authors. I had some issues getting all of them to be "authors" but we will see how it goes. I didn't want to do a wiki because I want them to be able to comment on each others' posts.
On this blog, one student a day (for extra credit) will summarize the days lesson and do some outside research on the topic as well. They should find pictures, videos and anything else related to the lesson. This way, the blog is also useful for a student who was sick and wants to learn about what we did in class. Additionally, student can comment on the original post (for a smaller amount of extra credit) by linking in articles they found, or responding to the post.
I'm launching this Wednesday so hopefully it goes well - it could also be total failure. I've got to try it to find out!
Here's the blog in case you want to check it out: www.wheelsearthscience.blogspot.com
Additionally, my students finished their Voicethread projects last week. It went really well! It was so much better than last year - I learned a lot from what didn't work last year and I was able to fix (most of it) the issues we had. Tomorrow we spend some time commenting. Overall I'm really happy with the project and look forward to doing more of them in the future.
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