Kim Pericles, Assistant Principle at Belmore South Public School shares a plethora of great teaching and learning ideas that are made possible due to blogging. Three examples which I liked in particular and would be interested in implemented when I start my professional teaching are:
- Blogging as a sharing and communicating tool: Students uploaded a video of a class performance of a Scottish dance which enabled students from Glasgow to view it and comment on the performance, which they has previously sent instructions on how to perform. By uploading their performance, the students were able to widen their audience to people all over the world and receive feedback from a wide variety of perspectives. This is an example of blogging as a group activity.
- Platform for critique: One student posted chapters from her book in order to get 'comments and feedback from her friends around the world' (Pericles. 2008, p. 5). Blogging made possible a chance for this student to share her work and receive constructive criticism which will aid her in editing and reviewing her book before she finishes it. This is an example of individual benefits of blogging.
- Sharing is caring: A group of students constructed a photographic montage of hundreds of pictures taken throughout the year to add to each students individual blogs. Blogging enabled these students to share these images and work created so that their fellow peers also had a copy of it on their own blog as part of a farewell for the end of the year. This is another example of the shared benefits of blogging for a whole year group.
Pericles, K. (2008) Happily blogging @ Belmore SOuth. SCAN, 27 (2), 4-6 http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/
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