Well this should prove to be interesting: a blog about blogging. How meta!
Anyway, I’ve really enjoyed using Blogger.com for this class. I’ve had a few blogs over the years, which I only updated sporadically, and this class gave me an opportunity to collect my thoughts. Although we had to write to specific prompts, I really liked the way we were able to communicate as a class in another capacity, through media literacy. I liked how this blog project allowed us to discuss “classroom stuff” in another forum, where communication is less formal. It was also encouraging to read what people commented on my blog, to know we’re in the same boat.
That being said, I think it would be a tremendous opportunity for students of any age to have a personal blog, created for a class. I think a blog is most appropriate for high school or college age students since the teacher can safely assume the students are more familiar or have the capacity to learn how to use a free blog site, like Blogger or LiveJournal. I would probably do something similar to what we did in this class, and have the students respond to prompts before, during, and after we complete a unit. As the teacher, I would probably have a blog too and possibly end up posting assignments there. If students had any questions, they could email me and talk to me but also comment on my blog and I would promptly respond. Perhaps the students could even use their blogs to post essays (save a tree!) and communicate and do group projects. At any rate, the idea of a blog can be put to tremendous use in almost any classroom and can be used to a variety of assignments.
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