Monday, February 17, 2014
Blogs in the early childhood classroom
This is not my first time creating and using a blog. In college, one of my courses required me to create a blog to talk about the observations I witnessed in my science mentor's classroom. We would have to post once a week on an observation of a lesson we saw our mentor's teach and the affect this lesson had on us as future teachers. The blog was public, but we were only required to share them with our professor and classmates. Also, in my undergraduate studies, we discussed the purpose and benefits of using blogs in the classroom. Now, I was a dual degree major with early childhood and elementary education and my elementary education courses were the ones where we discussed the use of blogs. Since, I have little knowledge of how a blog can be used in the early childhood classroom (as I teach Kindergarten), I will be using this blog assignment to discover and learn different ways teachers can incorporate blogs in a K-2 classroom. I hope to learn a lot from this blog assignment!
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I'd love to know the blog suggestions from your elementary ed courses. Were they aimed toward the older elementary age or spread throughout (Elementary ed is 2-5? or 1-6?)
ReplyDeleteElementary education is 1st-6th and the suggestions were to have students respond to each others blogs. Students were allowed to blog about their reactions to projects, assignments, subjects. This was geared more to the fifth and sixth grade students because of the maturity level. Students were encouraged to provide each other with "appropriate and kind" feedback on projects or blog posts on different topics.
DeleteAfter reading through the conference about blogging, I have decided to try this out with my 6th graders. I picked 6th grade because they are really into technology. I have enjoyed reading their conversations on Edmodo. I want to try the suggestion about the Frayer Model Vocabulary graphic organizer which suggested that I add links for each section (or that the kids add links :). Either way maybe as a class you can do this with your kindergarten students and instead of a bunch of words, add links that show pictures of the vocabulary words.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Frayer Model Vocabulary graphic organizer? Do you have any links to examples?
DeleteI will post one on my page, I just haven't figured out how to embed links here. I really like the model, especially the section that speaks about non-examples.
DeleteThe Frayer Model sounds interesting and I like your idea of creating one with vocabulary terms and adding links to those terms where students can click and see a picture.
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