1. I could use my blog as a place to keep my teaching journals. I am still a student teacher and I don’t have much teaching experience so far. Therefore, keeping journals to reflect my own teaching is a great way for me to keep record of my progress. I could write down events and ideas for the purpose of later reflection. In the process of writing, it might trigger some insights about teaching. Therefore, writing blogs about my own teaching experience could serve as a discovery process. Also, I could post some problems which I cannot solve on my blogs. Other teachers might give me some constructive suggestions. Blog is a great place to share, discuss and discover.
2. I could also use the blog as a part of the teaching and learning. I could post class-related information such as syllabus, homework and other materials on the blog for students to refer to. It’s just like the UB-Learns we are using right now.
3. Blogs can be used to make the classroom more collaborative and interactive. I can post not only class-related information, but also activities, discussion topics, links to additional information about topics students are studying in class, and readings to inspire learning. Students would be asked to post their reponses and ideas to questons and topics. They could also be asked to comment on each others’ respones just as we did in this class. This commenting feature will help students to develop language skills and also promote group learning.Besides the above ways of using blogs in the classroom, there are other ways also. For example, I could involve parents into the teaching and learning process. They could monitor their children’s learning and give me some suggestions at the same time.
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You have described some excellent uses for blogs. I hope that you get the chance to try them. Regarding journaling, don't forget that blogs can be read by anyone, so you want to be careful not to post things that you might not want the whole world to know!
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