Not sure if I’d call it a groundswell, but I’ve been setting up sites at a pretty heady clip the last few days, and yesterday (as the previous post so cryptically suggests) I started a workshop with 20 teachers who want to be bloggers (or should I say use blogs?) Cool thing is they’re from all over the map: English, math, consumer sciences, special ed, art, world languages. And I think they left yesterday’s class with brains fairly well wrapped around the concept and thinking about the possibilities. (This teacher obviously got religion.)We meet again tomorrow, and they have the “assignment” to create a couple more posts between now and then. We’ll do some more configuration and posting tomorrow then move on to RSS on Thursday. We’ll see…
So we’re nearing 400 sites on our server, probably 75% of them what I would call “active.” That might be a record. Very cool.
It’s reasonable to use blogs in a writing class (i.e., journalism) since it is expected that students practice writing through blogging. However, I wonder how math teachers can use blogs in “teaching mathematics”. Do you have any suggestion?
BTW, of course they can use blog in managing the learning materials but I don’t see this as teaching.