In St. Augustine, Florida, Shannon Montgomery is using blogs for reading in her 5th grade classroom. Mrs. Montgomery feels Reading + Computers = Fun! Mrs. Montgomery believes that reading blogs will help get students hooked on reading. The students are allowed to choose any book that they want to read. Then they all have a blast posting blogs about that book. They blog other students and the teacher online. Mrs. Montgomery uses blogs as part of the students' homework assignments. Every student is to log on everyday and post a blog as part of their homework.
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Marisa L. Dudiak's 2nd grade class uses blogs as journals. After visitng a Native American farm as a field trip, the class came back and posted blogs about their experiences. The students signed on and blogged about the field trip. Mrs. Dudiak feels it is more fruitful than a group discussion or a handwritten journal. Or if a classroom discussion gets cut short, the conversation can continue through blogs. One plus about blogs is that they are easy to maintain and that a teacher doesn't have a pile of journals to look at every week.
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