How can students benefit from using blogs in your lessons?
- Students can record their learning online
- They can receive comments and feedback from other people online. This can be from you as a teacher, or other students in the class (if you allow it). I sent some of my students blogs to an online "teacher sharing" website and now some of my students have even gotten comments from as far away as Australia!
- Students can use them to improve their literacy levels
- Students can unleash their creativity by adding pictures, videos, colours, themes, designs etc
- Students can access work wherever they are (CLIC, classroom etc) They can also submit work (as a new post) wherever they are.
- Students who are EAL can change the language of their blog to their language to help them access your work.
Here are two examples of Media Students' Blogs:
Luke Colburn Year 10 http://www.cbscmedialukecolburn.blogspot.com/
Will Pilkington Year 13 http://cbscmediawill-pilkington.blogspot.com/
How can teachers benefit from their students using blogs?
- Teachers can mark student work much more easily as all you need is a computer and internet access, rather than taking home piles of books and folders. Marks, and feedback can be left as "online comments" on a students blog.
- Teachers can easily share students work with other teachers within their departments
- No more excuses for not handing homework in such as "I left my book at home". Its easy for them to upload homework to their blog wherever they are. They can submit work to you even if they are in CLIC, off sick etc.
- Teachers can save resources such as books / pens etc as students can do a large majority of work online
- Blogs can be easily changed to different languages by students so teachers can help EAL students access work.
- It is easier to discuss students work (or lack of it!) with parents /staff as a link to their blog can easily be sent to them via email rather than sending their books home etc..
- Teachers can demonstrate that they are meeting the following core standards C4, C6, C12, C17, C19, C27, C29, C33, C40, and many many more!
How can teachers benefit from using blogs themselves?
- Teachers can improve their own use of technology
- Teachers could keep all their lesson plans, resources and instructions saved online in blog posts
- If they do this, teachers can be assured that even if a student is in CLIC, working somewhere else, or at home, they can still access the work for that lesson
- You can engage students online, in a way that they are familiar with and enjoy
- Blogs can be easily changed to different languages by students so teachers can help EAL students access work.
- Its a great way of sharing your work with others, or even just privately keeping a record of all the things you've gotten involved with during your teaching career. Imagine applying for a post and sending them a link to your blog so they can see all the exciting things you've been involved with over the years!
- You can post student work on your blog as examples and share them regularly with other colleagues.
Here are two examples of a teacher blog:
GCSE Media Studies Film Blog http://cbscfilmmarketingteacher.blogspot.com/
GCSE Advertising Blog http://cbscgcsemedialessons.blogspot.com/
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