Activity 1-Blog Bling

The video below is one that I have used when incorporating an author study into our science lesson! We had read many books by Eric Carl and the students were getting ready to plant flower seeds. The students really enjoyed having a book read to them though the video!

 
I think blogging could be used in a number of ways: First- It would be a great way to share tools and ideas among teachers! Second- What a great way to communicate with parents. Blogging would be a way to get parents interacting with me and with each other, which can be so important with new kindergarten families! In addition it would be a way to get parents blogging with their children to interact positively on the web with other families. Third- Setting up a classroom blog would allow for students to learn about being responsible digital users. I think I would use Kidblog to provide my students with a user friendly blog. After teaching the "How to" I think students could do a lot with many subject areas, but really within literacy! Allowing students to blog about a book, an experiment, an activity, etc, would touch on soooo many academic subjects, all while having writing being the base skill!