“A blog is merely a tool that lets you do anything from change the world to share your shopping list” ~Unknown DESCRIPTION: Educators blog for many different reasons. They blog about their experiences teaching, their philosophies, and their methodologies. They share projects their students are working on or use their blog to organize collaborative projects.
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My 8th grade students are participating in a 40-day blog challenge. Each day two different students post an idea on our Tread Lightly blog of how to be a good steward of the environment by recycling, reducing emissions, using less packaging, planting trees, etc. Our blog project was inspired by “Tread Lightly” a 40-day challenge
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Blogging can be used in any number of ways. It can be used to form a reading discussion forum or posting short current events articles and invite students’ thoughts. You can use it to foster communication among multiple classes or serve as a student progress log on a lab or research assignment. Some teachers use
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This term I decided to make some changes to the blogging activity that I do as part of the Digital Citizenship unit. In the past, students chose a topic based around the theme “We must be the change we wish to see in the world”. We are continuing with the theme and students will still
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After discussing an article about how the Obama administration is using technology to make a difference and encouraging community service, I asked my students in my 8th Grade and Computer Applications classes to reflect on their experience of using technology to “Be the Change in The World”. Here are a few responses taken from their
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I read with interest Will Richardson’s recent article in Edutopia about an 11 yr old girl named Laura who started a blog last year titled 25 days to make a difference. In the article, Richardson shares the story of how she gets her ideas for community service projects. Earlier this year, as I was listening
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Each semester my students create their own blogs around the theme “We must be the change we wish to see in the world”. I use this activity as part of my digital citizenship unit. I want the students to experience what it means to be a digital citizen in an authentic manner. I’m careful. I
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One year ago I began blogging at edtech VISION. Previous to that I had only blogged for my Masters of Educational Technology about my Action Research Project for Pepperdine University and occasional posts at Classroom 2.0. Anyone who knows me will understand that a one-year anniversary is a big deal for me. I’m the queen
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This past month my middle and high school students began blogging at http://vcs.21classes.com . Each student based their blog topic on this quote by Gandhi, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world”. Students chose topics such as recycling, Darfur, donating blood, AIDs, pollution, animal abuse, genocide, teen stress, depression …
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New blogger Jon Becker lamented in his blog a few days ago “It’s as if folks like Will Richardson, David Warlick, Wes Fryer, Vicki Davis, Dean Shareski, Stephen Downes, Chris Lehmann…(and, yes, you Scott) are having an awesome cocktail party conversation and I’m standing on the outside staring over their shoulders and listening in, trying
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