Reading chapter 2 in our textbook was very valuable for me because I was able to see and experience actual classroom weblogs. While the focus on the reading was on classroom weblogs was for ELA & literature type courses, there was an example of a weblog used in a AP calculus math course. The AP calculus math course weblog was for the 2007-2008 school year. The weblog had a large amount of class information. It had a wide variety of many student and teacher entries including polls & assignments posted by the teacher, slide shows & podcasts on concepts and lessons posted by both the students and the students, feedback on the course posted by the students and many other varied links. While the posted information was interesting and valuable for the students and the teachers, I found, given the way my mind and brain work, that it was a bit overwhelming for me to be able to efficiently work my way around the information.
While reading chapter 2 I became excited in thinking about how I might implement a weblog for my classes. I had lots of great ideas but most of my ideas centered around student entries. When it came to student entries I kept getting hung up on issues of security and safety. Mostly I thought about how do I keep inappropriate entries including links and blogs being posted by the students. I guess I could set up an approval process but then I have to invest a significant amount of time doing this. The inappropriate entries by the students could include safety issues where the students enter personal information on their blog that could cause issues. Maybe our class can discuss this issue and come up with good solutions.
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