BP2_2010021_Educational uses for blogs

Bloggers can start, add to, agree and disagree with any topic imaginable via the World Wide Web. I understand how educational uses for blogs support literacy development for all 21st century learners. Skill development in language arts in writing and reading, as bloggers, learners, practice the art of writing and publishing their work.

I am new to the cyber world of blogs, as a blogger and a follower of other blogs. I want to develop a practice of following informative, clear, well-written blogs on topics of education, arts, music and human rights.

As for writing my own blog, I am at the stage of writing for writing sake, and I want to develop the art of writing for publication. In my professional practice as a high school teacher in Career Technical Education within Technical Theater, I have introduced the concept of archiving one’s academic work and internship experiences within their personal e-portfolios, as students create and develop websites. I have added the development of reflective blogs related to our audience development program. Students will blog about their experiences with the Metropolitan Opera and working at the schools Community Celebrations.

I want to explore Professors Hanaway’s suggestion for “Blogging for teachers and students, made easy” with http://edublogs.org

I think it would support media literacy for my professional learning environment, a high school located in north Brooklyn, Williamsburg / Bushwick.

At first glance, http://edublogs.org resource appears to allow an unlimited blogs or $6,500.00 a year that allows the governing agent to control the content, platform, and track usage. The resource http://edublogs.org supports all learning environments from K _12 as well as universities.

In addition, I researched additional commentary on perspectives on how educational uses for blogs support literacy development for all 21st century learners, the following link highlights uses of blogs for self, learners, educators and instruction: http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/matrix2.gif

Thank you for reading my blog, feel free to comment and add links to any suggestions on how to use blogs in education.

Peace.