Just an update...

So, I showed my kids my Blogger account and I told them that we would be using it the next time we wrote out Newspapers and they all seem really excited and enthusiastic about it! This is great news and makes me excited and enthusiastic as well!!!

My first post!

Hello blogging world!

This is my first time ever posting a blog. I am enrolled in an online education class through the State University of New York at Buffalo and I am thrilled to be learning how to blog!

I have never used blogs in the classroom but I have been thinking about different ways to incorporate this rich tool so that it could be beneficial for my students. I have thought of a few ideas and I am open to any and all suggestions. I have recently ordered Ann Davis and Sandy Peters' Weblogs! The Possibilities are limitless from Amazon and I am hoping that this will also give me some useful ideas.

One thing that I do with my students, that essentially is somewhat like a blog, is that I have them all write small 'articles' reporting on a news event from the previous week , we compile them into a 'newspaper' and everyone must write comments on post it notes on each of the articles… but these comments must be in Spanish. Then the author of the article must comment back on a post it note on each of his or her comments. I have always enjoyed this activity but I do not do it often because it is time consuming and can get disorganized, but how great to now know how to blog! I can do the exact same thing and be completely paperless. Besides anything having to do with the internet and computers always excites my students!

Any ideas and help or useful blogging hints are welcome! Have a great day!! :o)