Donald Paterson at Speyside High has been using a blog to try to motivate his Higher pupils. He uses it to encourage discussion through posts and multiple-choice polls . He even posts homework tasks on the blog: pupils can publish mini-essays etc. and then read and comment on each other's work. It takes only minutes to set up online and all pupil comments come to the teacher first for moderation, so nothing unwanted or inappropriate can make it on to the blog.
Have a look at: http://shshigherenglish.blogspot.com/
Been using a blog with any of your classes? Why not leave a comment with your thoughts or even a link so we can have a look?
2 comments:
Edublogs provide filtered, easy to use (and free) blogs for educators at www.edublogs.org
- I'd highly recommend them if you want to have the flexibility of being able to allow pupils to leave comments without worrying about inappropriate language and links etc.
MrG
http://misterg.edublogs.org/
http://elginacademy.edublogs.org is a trial blog for an English classroom (X9 in Elgin Academy) where I post resources etc. Lost all the comments last month and have had to reinstall it again. Edublogs keeps crashing or having to go offline as they have become very popular in the States. Hopefully the new servers will make things go better.
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