Exploring Web Literacy in the Digital Age
I have decided to incorporate and explore a classroom blog as a means of exploring web literacy. The inspiration for this came from the article in this weeks lesson: Creating a class blog: A strategy that can promote collaboration, motivation and improvement in literacy by Dr. Hani Morgan.
I realized that it is actually an easy way to incorporate all aspects of Connecting through participating on the web. With the use of a classroom blog or even individual student blogs students accomplish:
Sharing - Students can create a blog that can be viewed all over the web.
Collaborating - Through a classroom blog, collaborating becomes key to a successful blog.
Community Participation - The focus on the blog can highly impact a community. Focusing a class blog on helping the homeless connects the class collaboration to the community it surrounds.
Privacy - All blogs sites have key privacy settings that can control who reads and comments on blogs. Privacy is learned through a better understanding of digital citizenship.
Open Practices - Open practices allows students to explore the methods that work well for them. Even though the blogs have basic templates, the customization aspects of each individual site allow for students to openly create something their own.
Helpful inks:
Starting a new blog:I realized that it is actually an easy way to incorporate all aspects of Connecting through participating on the web. With the use of a classroom blog or even individual student blogs students accomplish:
Sharing - Students can create a blog that can be viewed all over the web.
Collaborating - Through a classroom blog, collaborating becomes key to a successful blog.
Community Participation - The focus on the blog can highly impact a community. Focusing a class blog on helping the homeless connects the class collaboration to the community it surrounds.
Privacy - All blogs sites have key privacy settings that can control who reads and comments on blogs. Privacy is learned through a better understanding of digital citizenship.
Open Practices - Open practices allows students to explore the methods that work well for them. Even though the blogs have basic templates, the customization aspects of each individual site allow for students to openly create something their own.
Helpful inks:
https://startbloggingonline.com/get-started-classroom-blogging/
Existing classroom blog:
http://missgiraffesclass.blogspot.com/2016/10/25-chatty-class-classroom-management.html
