Thing #3 of “23 Things”

Register Your Blog

A Blog can be used in the classroom for many things, especially if you have a way of sharing/passing files with/to your students. Previously to this class task/activity, I already had a Blog-Website located at http://www.ridelto.spaces.live.com/ which I used only to share Power Point presentations and other files such as worksheets with my students. But obviously it can be used in many more ways. For example, an idea that occurred to me while I was working on these “23 Things” is to create a Blog similar to 23 things and make it into a class assignment. Of course it will take me some time to decide what tasks to add to the “23 Algebra Things” and I will have to require them to create a Blog so I could grade them according to what they write on their blog. The biggest problem is that these Blog-sites don’t allow math/formula symbols/characters.
Either way is an idea worth exploring. The other obvious things a Blog-site can be used for is sharing ideas with other teachers, posting best-practice activities and comments about how some strategies work and how to implement them. Another idea would be to use the “chat window” to communicate with teachers during classes. In our school we communicate during classes through emails and those who have Mac laptops (notebooks!) through a Macintosh messenger software (I don’t remember the name).
After these experiences I know I will be using Blog-sites in new ways. I wish all my students had access to the internet from their homes.

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