Blogging & Googledoc'ing

1. Give some specific ideas of how you could incorporate Blogs in your classroom. What are the advantages and disadvantages to using this technology in your classroom.

2. What did you learn about Googledocs Word Processor from the reading? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using this over traditional Word? List as many as you can.

     Within the art classroom, I would use blogs for the students to:

1) Take photos of their work

2) Upload them onto their blogs

3) Have the students critique one another as well as themselves. 

     I think this would be a really effective use of technology as well as blogs.  I would also love my future students to use blogs to describe their emotions about the projects they are assigned, and how they feel that day.  In art, I believe the work the students produce reflect themselves, and if they are having a good or bad day.  I feel this would allow my students to see what they are writing, and improve.

     

    The disadvantages to having blogs in the classroom are:

1) The students may abuse their internet privileges, and search websites that are inappropriate for the classroom.  

2) Other students will get too involved in their peers personal life if they are able to read their journal entries.  

                       **On blogspot.com, can students keep certain blogs private?

    Googledocs Word Processor is such an excellent resource to use when sharing documents with others.  The one major advantage to using this as opposed to having resend documents, is the other person can make changes or write comments and simply re-share without having to continuously share the document.

    Having this experience in the classroom was a great example. Sharing a simple document and power point with Allie in class, was a great way for me to learn how to use Googledocs.  This would be easy to sue in the classroom because the students can share documents with me, and I can use a different color to make corrections and give positive feedback.

    The disadvantage would be that Googledocs cannot perform the same tasks as Word/Pages, Powerpoint/Keynote.  The students will have to create the document outside of Googledocs then go into Googledocs and share it.