communication+through+blogging

Blogging __Description __

This assignment was meant for us to experience the socialization world or blogging. Blogging is a way to communicate and colloborative with others around the world. The purpose of a blog is to communicate information and have a public conversation across the web. A blog not only allows a person to read information but also to share new information as well. A person may also comment on others' posts and share new ideas. This assignment was to be used with our students, for them to communicate with one another and comment on others' posts. We were to participate in an already made blog and make comments on the blog on two different days. The other part of this assignment was to create a blog for our virtual classroom. The blog had to contain a rss feed and had to have places for the students to comment about the post, Visual affects are also key to a blog. You want the reader to engage in the information and the visual appeal to the blog and that is why graphics also needed to be added so that the students were more engaged to respond to others.

__Process __

When I started this assignment I didn't know exactly what a blog was. I knew that it was a way to talk to other people and for others to comments but I wasn't sure how to create one. I first participated in the blog that was already made for us. I looked around on the site to get comfortable with all the attributes you can include in a blog. I also watched a video on youtube that gave me information about blogging and what it is used for. I then started thinking about what I wanted to do with a blog. I wanted the students to compare their outlines to other examples of outlines and see which one worked for better for them, but I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to find a rss feed for that subject. Luckily after searching through many websites I found an rss feed that had examples of outlines and people posting new outlines and examples. I then put together my blog. I posted the assignment and what I wanted the students to do, compare their outline to others and make a comment about the contrast. The rss feed was apart of the assignment and they would use that website to compare.

__Reflection __

I did not find this assignment as helpful as the other assignments. I think that this is one tool that the students can use for a virtual classroom, but not as helpful as the others. I think that the students would get bored with just making comments about the post and to each other, because it is a lot like the discussion board. There are two differences that I see with blogging and the discussion board. Blogging allows for rss feeds and for others to comment that are not in the classroom, if you allow them, and the discussion board doesn't. I find that the blogging would be useful for older students such as fifth grade and above. I don't find that the blogging would be as useful with students that are lower level learners or in the lower grades. I found that finding a rss feed to compliment my blog was difficult as well. There wasn't as much out there about making outlines, so that was an issue. I thought that this was one of the easier assignments to complete but not as helpful for me in the classroom as the others.

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