A3.3: Response to Richardson (Chapter 3)
9/14/08
Source:
Richardson, W. (2009). The read/write web. Blogs, wikis, podcasts and other powerful web tools classrooms(2nd ed.). (pp. 1-16). California: Corwin Press
Purpose:
The purpose of this chapter was to introduce to the reader how to start their own weblog, how to get their students participating in the weblog, and told how to keep them safer while on the weblog.
Question:
What is the best way for me to tell people how to start their own blog, and give them some suggestions on how to incorpret their students into using the weblogs.
Information:
It is easy to start a blog and it can allow an excellent way to communicate with your students. It is best to start small when starting by just interacting with other blogs, and then start your own as a teacher. Then after you start yours get your students involved reading your class blog, and others that you have deemed appropriate. Then get them to respond to your posts on the class blog, and then you can allow them to make thier own. It also states that you will want to give your students a lesson about saftey for the computer.
Inferences/Conclusions:
This chapter tells you how to start a blog y ourself and that it can be done with students by entering them slowly into the blog world. This way they will learn how to use a blog appropriatly for the class.
Concepts:
In this chapter you learn how to use a publishing tool, how to make and use a blog, where you can get started, but you also have to take into consideration that not all students have access to the internet at home.
Assumptions:
The author assumes that you want to learn how to start a blog, and that you want to get your students involved. It also assumes that you want to use the provider that it uses to demonstrate how to start a blog.
Implications:
If you follow what the author says then you will know how to start a weblog yourself, and you will also learn one way to introduce your students to blogging. You can also stay into contact with your students parents and other professionals by allowing them to put their inputs in about the class. If you decided not to follow the author then you would not have a blog. You may also figure out how to start one on your own or you could not use one at all.
Point of view:
The author show that he thinks that it is very simple and easy to use the blog and start one up. He also seems to think that it is benificial to the students for them to use it in class.
