The Socially Networked Classroom-- Blogging

I love the endless possibilities with blogging. I would love to use blogging as a part of my teaching. It is fun, easy and a great way for me to keep up with my students and to possibly assess their work and understanding.

"The Socially Networked Classroom" gives so many ideas for blogs as a part of classroom instruction. I particularly liked chapters 3 and 4, because they gave specific activities and rubrics for blogging. I think I prefer to use Blogging as a response, as I am doing now! As for blog responses, I will definitely use the rules for blogging found on page 55. Response was something I was concerned about, but he ground rules are simple, it's all about respecting the classroom community!

What I love the most about this book is that it offers very specific activities. Since I have yet to teach, I need these ideas! Eventually, I'm sure my creative juices will begin to flow and I will be able to create fun activities with these. But until then, thank you Dr. Kist for giving such fun activities to use in my future classroom!