Blogging+using+Blogspot.com

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=What is Blogging?=

A blog is an online log dedicated to a certain topic and maintained by one administrator, but allow comments and communication between its users. Blogs can be used for business, educational, or personal use.

= = = Assignment: =

Our assignment was to create a blog relevant to our instructional unit that we have created on BlackBoard. My instructional unit is on the life of a colonial child, so I chose to have my students "blog" or comment on how their life vs. the life of a colonial child and how they are alike and different. I also linked my blog to websites from Colonial Williamsburg and the History Channel for further resources.

= Process: = = = I started this assignment by looking at blogspot.com. I wanted to make sure that I understood how to use the application and its capabilities. I began by registering using my gmail account. Next, I explored the design portion of the website and began to build my blog. Once I had my topic, it was very easy to manipulate this program and have it do what I wanted. My blog quickly formed and I invited the students in the EDT6020 to join and participate in my blog.

= Reflection: =

I found the assignment to challenging and easy at the same time. Joining blogspot.com and creating the blog was easy, but manipulating the RSS feeds and videos onto the site was difficult for me to do without studying it first. I find the thought of a blog interesting. It can be used in so many areas of teaching. It can be used with parents for communication of assignments and events in the class with communication abilities to it. A blog can be used with students to discuss a certain topic between each other or with another class, possibly in another school or state or even country. Blogs offer quite a bit of engagement for their users. As a teacher, I also see the concern with a blog and the education of using a blog, so inappropriate activities, such as profanity or cyber bullying, don't take place. Blogs can be used with most grades from even first grade on, as long as the students are capable of using the internet. I think blogs definitely are a benefit to the classroom and those who use them.

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