The applications for blogging in education, especially for older students, are only limited by imagination. What about blogging for younger students? How can an edublog be utilized in a primary classroom? I wish I had the answer to that question, but that is what I plan to find out this year.
My name is Christopher Wright and I am a third grade teacher. For this school year, I decided to design my classroom website around a content management system (MovableType). I did this for several reasons. 1) I wanted to increase parent/teacher communication through the website. I wanted to give parents a resource and an easy way to communicate with me. A blog helps foster this communication through use of comments and frequent updates. 2) My school district does not allow me to FTP, so keeping a website up to date at school became a challenge, the blogging software take care of that problem. 3) I am familiar with MovableType from my own weblog where I share about my personal experience in education, What in Tarnation?!?!?
So I am looking forward to seeing how my experiment will work out and I will be looking out for other Primary teacher blogs to get ideas from and to share them with you.
I would also like to thank Albert for asking me to be an author here EdBlogger. I can't wait to see what this new tool can do for students and educators.
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