Ganley

Ganley article

In reading Barbara Ganley’s article about her experiences with technology she discusses her experiences with blogging. Her description of her classroom where students don’t even know each other’s names is quite sad, but it’s true. Many high school and college courses have turned into that. Students go to class and focus on the teacher and never became a “community” of learners. She decided to change that through the use of blogging. She gradually evolved from using weblogs as cores management, to student weblogs, to a course weblog and now to a Motherblog- where all students contribute.

Since I recently learned about weblogging, I also hope to gradually evolve my blogging skills into something that is useful for my students. I plan to introduce blogging as a whole class and eventually have individual student blogs. At my school we loop with our classes through two years (2nd &3rd), so I’m hoping by 3rd grade students will be able to start blogging on their own.