Monday, January 26, 2009
Blogging on Blogging
This is only the second blog that I have ever used, and I still find blogging a bit strange. I have never been one to keep a diary, so writing what is essentially a diary for the public is still somewhat disconserting for me. I use D2L with my class, but have never considered making my students blog for class. I imagine that they would react with a bit of reluctuance as I usually do when required to do assignments of this nature. Logistically, reading 25 blogs would get to be a bit much, (on top of grading papers, prep, etc) so I'm not sure if I will implement blogging in my classroom anytime soon. I realize the blogging forces me to put my thoughts out there for the rest of the world, and to be comfortable with that, which is something that I would like my students to feel comfortable with as well.
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Nancy, I am thinking of exchanging blogging for the in-class writing prompts I do now. I have to read 25 times 3 prompts every week, so I am doing a lot of reading and responding/grading. Since I am the only one who reads the journal, students are not inhibited to say what is on their minds. However, most of these students are used to facebook and making personal comments that the public (and peers) can read, so I am thinking a blog may serve the same purpose as in-class writing. It is something to consider.
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