Module 3 Assignment 1

After working with blogging through this class for the first time on my own I have been able to quickly learn a lot and discover how easy and accessible it can be.  I really liked the article Blogging in the 21st Century, it really talked a lot about how blogging can really help get students engaged.  I also really liked how it included the comments from the students about blogging really made writing more fun and less of a chore for them.  Also, the teacher posted about how great all their writings were when they knew they had a much broader audience they were writing for.  I really liked all the points this article made about all the uses for blogging in the classroom and how she used it for free writing assignments and also for class related response posts as well.

Another article that I found on my own was Blogging? Its Elementary My Dear Watson!.  This was a good article that was more focused on blogging, as the title says, in the Elementary classroom.  It talked about different blogging sites that are good to use with younger students and also gave some safety tips which I liked.  This article discussed how students were not only using the blog to work on their own writing skills but to interact with other students as well and I really liked that aspect!