Hello everyone!
I send out an email to the principle's secretary asking her to forward a message to the faculty soliciting any one's help with blogging. I get a curt message back: The principle wants to see you. Ut oh am I in trouble - "The principle wants to see you" always has an ominous tone to it. I rush down to her office after school and alas she has left already. I steel myself for possible bad news and sheepishly ask if I were in trouble but tried to sound like I was kidding. Well, (Barb - the nice secretary)- says, she does not want you blogging in the classroom. She specifically said no blogging at Mainland. Okee Dokee I say, I'll see her tomorrow. Oh she won't be here tomorrow, you will have to see her Friday. Guess what, she left before 7th period was over again.
So there I am, no blogging at Mainland. I think I shall put forth a good pro and con list and see what she says. There are ways to moderate what gets posted to and from the blog am I right? If that is her fear I should be able to ameliorate her with that news. I certainly read enough on other educator's blogs on how they use blogging in the classroom. It can't be that harmful can it be? While it may be innocuous in the elementary level maybe high schoolers can't be trusted with it. Any advice before I see the principle Monday would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for your nice comment on my blog. Video streaming is where you use short little videos as part of a lesson. They are about five minutes long. There was one on germs that my kids loved. I think the videos are part of some sort of program. They have them in all subjects.
ReplyDeleteBlogging seems like a great idea for students to me. You might want to check out JT Spencer's class blog. He has an awesome class blog. His blog is on Teacher Lingo and is called Musings from a not so master teacher. He has a recent post with a video by his students. He might be able to answer some of your class blogging questions.
Ruth,
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your meeting. Go prepared, take permission letters, rubrics, and anything else that might help to convince the principal you will control and will guide this activity. Techonology is scary to those of us who weren't born into it, maybe the principal just needs a little education about technology. See your technology coordinator for support.
Lora
Ruth,
ReplyDeleteI believe that my colleagues are experiencing the same issues regarding blogging. They had to go through a more time consuming process, but they had the students email their posts to them so they could see if they were appropriate or not.
I know that I have all my posts go directly to my email before they are posted. That way I get to approve them before anyone else gets to. That has helped some.
Good luck with your meeting. I think approaching this with a solid list of pro's and con's is a great way to start out. Let us know how it ends up.