Is Blogging Working
I have been blogging in my geometry classes and so far I feel like they are working for the student that it is assigned to for that particular day. However, my purpose/expectation for blogging in my class is for students to piggy back off of eachother and add comments to one another when they feel the need to add real world applications to what we are doing in class. That isn't happening! I have tried to encourage my students to keep the conversation going but I have often times recieved the comment from my students that they are sick of blogging for classes and don't see the purpose. I have tried to make it purposful in class but I am not sure I have done a good job for a math blog. So I am debating on whether or not to continue having a class blog?? Any ideas?
posted by Missy Jonson @ 2:09 PM
4 Comments:
If the purpose is to add real-world applications to what you are doing in class, maybe they just don't see any at the moment. Are they clear about what the purpose is in your class? I think if you have a clear, worthwhile and relevant purpose, then you should keep at it. If not, then keep at it only if you still think it's worthwhile for the student who's scribing.
I agree with you. We go over the blogs on Friday's and add/delete anything that we feel as a class needs to be done. The one thing I have found with the real world applications is they are very vague with no detail. So we did discuss and the importance of the blog. I will continue this and see how it plays out for this semester and then make changes if I need to. Thanks so much for your advice :)
I think that you might even try to get a day in the computer lab where they spend the hour looking at each others blogs and responding to what they see. Maybe if they get some practice doing this in class, they will start to see more value in check what others have put on there.
My students acutally told me that they wanted to reveiw these blogs weekly. So instead of a warm-up on Friday's we review the blogs for that week and discuss what we could have done better as a class and if there is anything that we need to add or delete. This seems to be working right now??
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