In setting up my personal blog I never had any trouble, although figuring out how to use the features, including editing and deleting posts, or adding to the group blog was a little more confusing. The blog was much more useful for collaboration than even the study group area in Webtycho. For use in my future classroom, I do like the idea of students’ assignments being posted and available for review and also having the ability to comment and communicate back and forth about discussion-worthy or related items. Students from other classes, other schools, or even other countries can join discussions as well. Creating a two-sided debate between schools would be a great way to address some science questions, and help students in developing arguments for or against a topic. Organizing an online debate between two classrooms would be a challenge for students that would allow them to learn about blogging and technology functions, while still accomplishing a class project. It would also encourage coordination between teachers and even school districts. The following resource provides support for student debates and topic ideas for teachers.
http://debate-central.ncpa.org/
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