Reading, Writing… Compute!

On Thursday, April 17th, I will be hosting a a PLC hour on Blogging in the classroom.  I’ll share examples of kid work as well as allowing teachers time to blog - on this article and workshop, actually.

Did you like the session?
How do you think you would use this with your kids?
What else would you like to know about blogging?
What do you think kids would get from an experience like this?

Feel free to share and discuss!

Interesting website.

http://blog.masslive.com/nie/2008/03/how_vital_is_technology.html

Kids and their images and thoughts about using technology in the classroom.  Amazing stuff!

Blogging is an interesting activity.  As much as one shares, one want to learn as well.  Unfortunately, I’mstill learning not just how the blogs work, but how to USE and fully untilize a blog.  <sigh>  Eventually, I’ll get it all figured out!

Yeah, I never thought I’d be SO hooked on twitter.com — but I am!!!  Who knew that “following” someone would lead to so many different ideas and resources!

So, if you’re in the twitter-zone… I’m zonie71.

I was thinking… I’ve spent these past two weekends (for the most part) at conferences for school.  One weekend was abpout technology and the other was for reading.  At one conference (the technology one), the books were about using technology in the regular classroom.  At the other, the books were about reading, writing, and teaching it all.

I didn’t really see anything that would take both worlds and combine them.  I don’t want these worlds to collide, but blend and combine with a friendly tone.  I am still looking for a book or informational resource for using technology in the middle school language arts classroom.  I’ve got enough knowledge, but don’t know if there is a need out there.

Hmmmmm…

Here I am at MRA, in a blogging workshop.  Interestingly enough, we’ve been given some time to write about blogs.  I’ve actually tried blogging, but it didn’t work out so well in the end.  It worked really well when we used it for novel study, but after that it kind of fell off…  perhaps it was because I wasn’t really ready to use it outside of the novel study.  The kids were using the blog to compare MSU vs. UofM.  Probably should have thought it through a bit more… ya think?

Here I am!  I’m a 6th grade Language Arts teacher and am excited to be a STAR DEN Member.  I use technology as much as I can in my classroom.  If anyone has great ideas to incorporate computers and reading, that would be amazing!