Teresa Ritchie's Blog

Response to Hot Blogging by Lisa Zawilinsky January 20, 2010

This article was very insightful.  I believe I can learn from the trial and error this teacher, Stephanie LeClair, experienced.  She created a class blog for her students and asked them to regularly respond to a certain story.  The students eagerly made inputs to the blog at first, but then it seemed to lose its appeal.  Children need to follow their own interests.  One story may be the best thing ever written according to Person A, but Person B may like a different type of story altogether.  I don’t think there’s any harm in letting children write about the things they like, after all, they are willing to write in the first place and their writing skills are sure to improve with each blog entry under the guidance of the teacher.  When children are allowed the freedom to choose their writing topics, they are more eager and willing to write and what better place than on a class blog?  Children in today’s classrooms are in the computer age – blogging is sure to help them learn the ins and outs of computer literacy.  I plan to create a class blog for my own students.  It’s going to feel good to give them an edge in technology as well as have that good means of communication between them, me as their teacher, and their parents.