Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Thing 1: Blogging



I'm kind of excited, not that technology is new to me but as a librarian my district, RCS, has really been embracing the use of technology with our students over the last two years.  I have been a librarian for about 13 years and have always tried to introduce technology some way into my library instruction.  But this past year, my district has started the implementation of Google Apps for Educators and its use with students at the middle (where I work) and high school levels.  The project has grown and the interest continues to grow as time goes on.

I got interested in this program because it will allow me to cover many tools in a short time, and I hope will introduce me to different ways to introduce these tool into the classroom.  I have already seen this with the use of Andrea Hernandez's Blogfolio's.  This is something that I would love to do with my students.   We have tried blogging in the past with a literacy class but the results were not exactly what I had hoped.  The students did not seem enthused with the blogging, probably because they were blogging to prompts and not about things that interested them.  The blogging didn't continue past the class year.  I would like this to be a program my ELA and Literacy teachers can get behind.  I am going to do more research before starting again, and have a much more detailed and long term plan before I start with the students.