Blogspot+Applications

Oftentimes an event occurs immediately after we've discussed a related concept in class. This would be a great tool to help students relate and transfer what we are learning in the classroom to the real world. ||
 * ~ Ideas for Implementation: ||
 * Use as an ongoing formative assessment tool for student understanding of concepts. Also, use it as a way students can continually refer back to specific information they may need again or information they may need from a classmate. This is like capturing a class discussion for continuous use. ||
 * For my Sports Marketing class I use a blog when the students are doing their practice lessons in Virtual Business Sports. As the students finish their lesson or a group of lessons I have them respond to a blog of questions and/or prompts I have provided for them. This way I can see what the students' understanding of the lessons were to plan for instruction the next day. I also chose to use a blog for this because students need to use the information from the lessons they participated in during their "learning" phase to help them create, manage, and operate their own professional football franchise. It is a quick, easy, and efficient way for the students to refer back to the previous posts by themselves and their classmates. View the blog ||
 * You could use it as an anticipatory set at the beginning of class to get the students thinking about the topic of the day. This way they could see others perspecitves on a topic and it gives the teacher an idea on what students already know about a topic.
 * Use as a planning tool for group projects which would likely move students along more quickly as the basis of the project could be documented and redundancy could be avoided. ||
 * In an elementary setting the blog is a great way to share what is going on in the classroom. It takes the place of a weekly classroom newsletter and it allows for feedback. ||