I'm being to feel as though I belong to some private club. One of my county technology people stopped by my school today, and as usually, I shared what I am learning in this course. I voiced my concern over Internet safety with our middle school students and she said I have to be very careful because they are under 13. She shared a blog called "classchatter.com" that is free and can be set up just for our class. I checked it out and plan to play with it before I launch it with my students. This site would still need to be monitored by me. Because my school already uses ThinkQuest, I may just stick with it. We are finding it to be a terrific place for our students to store work, turn in assignments, and run discussion or blogs. Students can create discussion boards among other things to interact with one another. The bonus is that my school technology specialist helps monitor it!
As I began reading and viewing this week's resources, a friend of mine shared a story. A major network asked a potential guest to respond to one their blogs. This blog would give them an idea of what this man stood for, how well spoken he is, and see if he would be a good fit for them. I found this very interesting because I can see blogging as a portal to an interview or job. My middle school students have no idea what is coming in the future. I hope I can figure out how to use all the tools of this class to help them on their way!
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