Blogging about Blogging!
This online commentary found on YouTube, entitled ‘Telling a New Story’ gives illustrations of how social software such as blogs can be used with even the youngest students in primary classrooms. I found this short clip to be very inspiring!
This commentary outlines various ways in which technology can be practical within the classroom, As many things that can be done on a computer can also be done with pencil and paper. Some of these examples include the publishing of work. When students are ready to publish a piece of work, they will do so over a blog. Their audience is wider and they have people around the world commenting and giving feedback on their work.
I found this concept alone quite interesting as I tend to question the use of technology in the primary classroom at times. The school itself also uses blogs as a way of informing parents about what their students are learning along with the various events that may be occurring within the classroom. And this particular class is a year one class! I find this all very fascinating, and this commentary has inspired me to use technology within the classroom when I was fairly sceptical before at the beginning of this class.
