Blogging!

I love to blog and when I have time, I keep the blog on my Myspace page fairly up to date. Before this class I never even considered using a blog with my students. After reading articles about the benefits and uses of blogging in the classroom, I am excited to use blogging with my students after Christmas break. Currently my students use Reader Response Journals to write about books that they are reading. We will continue to write in our RRJs, however, in January it will be required for my students to blog two entries a month on our gagglenet account. I can see this being such a valuable learning tool for my 3rd graders. Right now I am the only one that sees and responds to the entrys that they make in their journals. I am excited about my students reading and responding to each other. I have high hopes that blogging about books will even get them talking about their books more.