From CNET... -ac
As a middle-school teacher, Clarence Fisher is used to spending some
time each evening grading papers and reviewing lesson plans. But this
year he's got an additional after-school task: updating his students'
blogs. Fisher set up online personal journals--Web logs or blogs--this
fall for each of his students at Joseph H. Kerr School in the Canadian
town of Snow Lake, Manitoba. His combined seventh- and eighth-grade
class generates about a dozen entries a day on topics ranging from
classroom assignments to weekend plans, which Fisher reviews before
posting online.
He's more than glad to do it. Like other teachers bringing blogging into
the classroom, he thinks the online journals will spark students'
enthusiasm for computers, writing and opining.
"They're learning the technical skills, but they're also learning that
they have a voice online," he said. "They may be from a tiny town in the
middle of nowhere, but they're writing online, people are commenting on
it, and they're learning that they have a voice."
Fisher is among a small but growing number of teachers and professors
experimenting with classroom blogs. The exact number is hard to pin down
but it's well into the thousands, said Will Richardson, author of "An
Educator's Guide to Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Cool New Web Tools
that are Transforming the Classroom," which is set for publication next
year.
<snip>
http://news.com.com/2102-1032_3-5895779.html
--
-----------------------------------
Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://katrina05.blogspot.com
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
-----------------------------------
_______________________________________________
DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide
To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE
in the body of the message.
