Here is an excellent article and I love the statement "Blogging is one way of linking writing, reading, and connecting information and learning together" that Silvia Tolisano makes in her blog....
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Langwitches Blog » Blogging with Elementary School Students
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Blogging with Elementary School Students
by Langwitches ~ December 23rd, 2008. Filed under: Blogging, Classroom Projects, Digital Storytelling, Elementary School, Geography, Literacy.All of our teachers at my elementary school maintain their own classroom blog. As I wrote about in Blogs vs. Static Website and Changes in Classroom Blogs, we still have a long way to go as we need to move forward from merely a one sided communication tool to an online learning space that encourages, fosters and supports students’ creativity and learning.
Being able to read AND express yourself in a digital world is an important part of being literate in the 21st century.
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Blogging with Elementary School Students
by Langwitches ~ December 23rd, 2008. Filed under: Blogging, Classroom Projects, Digital Storytelling, Elementary School, Geography, Literacy.All of our teachers at my elementary school maintain their own classroom blog. As I wrote about in Blogs vs. Static Website and Changes in Classroom Blogs, we still have a long way to go as we need to move forward from merely a one sided communication tool to an online learning space that encourages, fosters and supports students’ creativity and learning.
- Blogging is one way of linking writing, reading, and connecting information and learning together. It seems the perfect venue to introduce elementary school students to the online world world of networked learning. They need to get acquainted to reading and writing hyperlinked text .
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