This Friday I had a super beneficial conversation with a colleague who works with the 9th graders at my school. He was saying that he uses blogs, specifically on this platform (Blogger) to digitize his students laboratory process. At the beginning of each year he gets each student to set up a blog on which to publish their lab reports. This might seem like a small feat, but considering the lack of digital literacies in our school systems, it does take a lot of work.
He then sets community requirements, where each student must comment on 5 other lab reports, giving constructive criticism so that the students can modify their labs to gain better grades. This type of interactive community reminded me of what we have been doing in our Emerging Technologies for Education class when we comment on each others posts.
My colleague told me that it would help him a lot if I could go over blogging with my students in 8th grade so that they could help the other students once they get to his class. I really wish I had known about this earlier this year, but even with only 3 months left I believe it is worth the time investment so that they can get started on the right foot!
If you are interested in his blog, it is in French but here it is http://monsieurgravel.blogspot.ca/
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