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History-Blogging

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Description of tool and basic function:

Blogging allows for students to share ideas and interpretations relating to class, readings, or assignments. This helps for students to gain from each other through the use of the internet. Using blogging and the internet helps students to feel more comfortable in their own ideas and interpretations because many students are more comfortable sharing through typing than in front of the class verbally. Blogging may also come useful for a teacher by having a teacher blog, where students can go to see if they missed anything during an absence. This also allows students with ESL backgrounds or other language barriers that would keep them from sharing their ideas in the classroom.

Tips for Successful Blogging:

1. Students should know what it is for, and what is appropriate content to post to their blogs.

2. Teachers should monitor the blogging to ensure it is being used appropriately.

3. It should be utilized so it is considered a tool in the classroom; these take a while to set up, so students should use them regularly when they are set up for the class.

4. Students should be instructed briefly on how to use the program, and given a handout with directions, so lack of knowledge is never an excuse for incomplete blogging assignments.

5. Students who need in-class support (perhaps no internet at home,) need to be given that support and not ignored.

3 Examples of how to use Blogging:

Have a student respond to a primary source or photograph in an online blog. Some examples of this may be a photograph, a diary page, a document, an artifact, etc.
Encourage students to use an online blog to ask questions, so they can be addressed in class the next day. Teachers can follow these blogs to be prepared the following lesson in including what students had questions about.
For a discussion, have students look at each other’s blogs online, then bring an argument with either supporting information or refuting information to class to start discussions on the topic previously taught. This would be a great way to enter into a seminar, especially if you require students to print off a blog page from a classmate, then respond to it in a written paragraph at the bottom.

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Students need to be instructed on how to blog before blogging can begin in the classroom.