One
successful example of technology integration in my classroom has been the use
of blogs as a discussion tool for both traditional commenting and logging of
free read books for student research. Having experienced the positives of
expanding discussion beyond partners, small groups, and the classroom, this
upcoming school year I’m excited to expand collaboration in the same manner
with wikis.
Blogs
are great because students have a much wider audience to share opinions, ask
questions, and offer critique. Discussion is an important aspect throughout the
learning process, but discussion is meant to be a step toward creating a final
product. To this point in my classroom, discussion has been wide, but the
collaboration on final product has not. Students have been confined to using
those wide reaching blog discussions to create an individual product. Wikis
provide a great tool to bring width the product as well. I hope for students to
collaborate on research, joint essays, and online anthologies, to name a few,
in small groups, as a class, across all my sections, and possibly with other
schools.
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