I recently read an article called Happily Blogging @ Belmore South which presents a quick overview of Belmore South's Assistant Principal, Kim Pericles', methods of utilising blogs in her 4, 5, 6 classroom.
Her classroom represents a learning environment which is embedded in new literacies and celebrates skills in Web 2.0 technologies. The three ideas that Pericles has implemented that I think are the most exciting are:
1. The use of the blog to share student work with other students (both locally and internationally). An example of this is showing a class overseas a science experiment via a short video clip and including written instructions.
2. Using the blog to gain peer feedback - such as the student who was writing a story which would be uploaded for peer review from primary students at other schools as well as for constructive feedback from highschool students.
3. The use of the blog as a way for students to, not only celebrate achievements, but also ensure a high standard. The children in this classroom were developing their own sets of criteria based on their assessments of other blogs. This was enabling students to develop, utilise and check their work based on obejctive criteria.
Overall it seemed like the use of the blog in the classroom provided motivation as well as an extended means of communication and expression and provided a sueful model for implementing blogging practices in primary classrooms.
Reference:
Pericles, K. (2008). Happily blogging @ Belmore South. SCAN, 27(2), 4-6
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/
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