I'm continuing my blogging theme this morning.
Herman Wood is a technology integration specialist from the Cobb County, Georgia, school district.
Why blog instead of a website? - Journal form. Easy to create. Not as limited by network policies.
He introduced a 3rd grade teacher whose students created a blog on Harriet Tubman written from her perspective. It's located at http://dowel.typepad.com/harriet_tubman. It includes a time line created in Kidspiration, drawings, a video, music, art, and a listing of other resources.
Each entry represents a chapter in the book she read to the class and was done by different students. She gave the students a topic list so the entries would cover the same material.
They used http://www.typepad.com/ for hosting the blog. It is inexpensive - $150/year for as many blogs as you need. They don't like blogger.com because of the button at the top, Next Blog. They are concerned what might come up.
Their district is pretty locked down on technology; and at the time, students were not allowed to comment on the posts. This has now changed.
She found good student response to the project. Reluctant readers and writers got actively involved.
They also shared a blog from an 8th grade class, http://tappmiddleschool.typepad.com/ww2, on World War II. This came later than the first blog and students were able to comment. In one class period, over 100 comments were made.
Another blog they shared was from a 4th grade class. It is on the civil war, http://dowell.typepad.com/civil_war.
Herman suggested looking into Gaggle.net for hosting blogs and email.
I think there is a lot of potential for social studies, science and English classes for blogging from the standpoint of an historical character.
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