“Don’t Feed the Trolls”
Richardson, K. (2008). Don’t feed the trolls: Using blogs to teach civil discourse. Learning & Leading with Technology, 35(7), 12-15.
I never had any experiences with blogging as an educational tool. Even while I was in k-12 I never really used anything except email as a social tool. So this may be something that I will be using as a teacher that I never used as a student. As far as holding students accountable for their behavior online I plan to consider anything they say or post in a school related assignment as if they said it in class.
I found another article on the ISTE website that was related to the topic of blogs. It can be found in the L&L section volume 35 no5 and is called “Blogger’s Café: A Vision for Classroom Blogging”. It was helpful because it contained advice for teachers on what blogging in the classroom should look like (in the author’s opinion). It is interesting to hear the process of what setting up a blog in the classroom might look like.
The direct link is
http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=February_No_5_2&Template=/MembersOnly.cfm&NavMenuID=3883&ContentID=19602&DirectListComboInd=D
Thomas
Thomas,
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the initiative to share your Blog as a work-in-progress.
You pose some interesting concepts about growing up with using one set of tools and needing to prepare yourself to use an entirely new set of tools with your future students.
Prompts the question- what will your students be using when they become adults?
Hi Thomas,
ReplyDeleteI wanted to let you know that your Blog has a nice template and color choice making it easy to navigate through. I wish it was more personable by using photos, I think that is something I could do as well. Your blog is clean, simple and to the point. I liked the title that you chose " think while you read", that shows imagination on your part. ( as I didn't think to do that.
Sincerely
Tiffany Gnad