Blogging in my class
well, if you notice that some of my articles have comments being added en masse daily, that’s because i am having my students read through a specific category of my blog entries this week and choose one entry to add a comment to. previously, i was getting mass comments because of spammers, so this is much better.
this is one way to draw traffic to my site, but that’s not the reason i do it . . . i have only a limited amount of time to spend with my students and there is much i’d like to discuss with them if given more time. using my blog allows me to comment on stories and subjects briefly and then to have my students sift through these various blog entries to find the one they wish to discuss further. the end result is that my students and i have a chance to ineract on a stories that pertain to our curriculum, but that provide an alternative means to cover this material and hopefully my students find the exercise to be worthwhile.
in the future, i am going to have my students visit other blogs that cover material and comment on those blogs. after posting a comment, my students are instructed to post a message on the class discussion board explaining where they commented so that i can check up on it easily. it’s a nice little system for getting my students involved with the online world in a productive manner.
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