Blog in the Classroom
My name is Chea-Lene Tan and this is my third year teaching 5 th grade. This year, I am teaching 5 th Grade, and want to try to create a blog for Social Studies Writing. I have already created a blog this year mostly for parent communication. The blog that I already have was created mostly to give updates and information about what is happening in the classroom. However, I want to create a blog that has a focus on student learning as well. The purpose of a social studies blog would serve in my classroom is for students to be able to share their writing for social studies about current events. I want to be able to create a collaborative space for students to be able to share their writing and give feedback to one another through the comment section. As Richardson mentioned in the list of classroom uses of weblogs, I want to be able to “create a dynamic teaching site” that is filled with “discussion topics, links to additional information about topics they are studying in c...