Classroom Uses for Blogs

• On-going lesson summary as a log for absent students, review, and reflection
• Individual student reflection on concepts
• Students can create a blog for other students to use that contains content relevant to TEKS
• In Math, students can embed the Problem of the Day/Week and then the explanation or how to for the problem
• For writing, teacher can post a picture as a story starter...each blog post can be a continuation of the same story
• Teacher can use a broad concept (ie: "Freedom", "Measurement") and ask students to post pictures or video as illustration of that concept
• Gathering data (polls, posting observations, posting pictures)
• Teacher posts a statement and students can debate the issue
• Students can use their own Blog to "journal" as a main character of a novel, or a historical figure to demonstrate research they have done about the time period, novel, setting, etc.
• Using sites like gabcast, VoiceThread, or Vocaroo students can record audio and post on their own Blog, or on the class Blog, depending on the objective