Wow, now in Chapter 2 of Richardson's book "Blogs,Wiki's, Podcasts" I never thought of using the weblogs to install student work. What a great idea esspecially in our current economy where the counties are cutting our budget for supplies. In my school this year we only get 2 boxes of copy paper for the whole year and when you need to individualize instruction for each child for every subject having only two boxes of paper isn't realistic. Well if I was able to put their work online and have them hand in their work online I could save it and have it right there at my finger tips. I was also thinking what a great way to keep all their work, so if you have a child who needs to go to Child Study you have all the documentation right there. This would solve the problem of not having enough paper and it would also allow the students to put their work up and get comments from parents, peers, and teachers. I liked it also because it would be easy to keep track of their work, so if a parent came and said well they handed that in or questioned their grade (like they would ever do that right?) you could pull their work up and show them. Communication, Communication, Communication.
What does every think of this idea? Does anyone already do this and any suggestions for implementation?
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I really liked the idea of a blog used as a student portfolio. All of their work in one place. Compact & convenient. I'd like to try it at our school, maybe try it during summer camp, then put it into action next school year.
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