More on Blogging
I received an email from Mark Ahlness, who is a teacher at Arbor Heights Elementary School. He uses David Warlick’s Blogmeister tool to host a classroom blogging page for his third-grade students. It’s one of the sites that we visited in our meeting yesterday, and I told our participants that part of the deal was that they had to leave at least one comment in response to a student’s blog.
I received a nice email this morning from Mark, and it read in part:
Conn, thanks so much for sending your participants our way today! There were 9 or 10 comments sent to my classroom. Each comment means so much to them, and they get so motivated to write even more. I have never seen anything
like this in the classroom!
If you get an opportunity to visit Mark’s classroom page, drop a comment to one of the students. If you want to look for other classrooms, if you go to the Blogmeister site linked above, look for a drop-down window in the upper right that lets you select a state and then select a teacher that’s using the tool. We’re pretty early in this classroom blogging thing, but I think it has lots of intriguing potential.