Recently I have discovered some of my P3 students writing some questions to me in their TSA speaking and writing practise. The last paper was on based on buying fruit from a fruit shop and some students at the end of their answers would ask "Mr.Man what is your favourite fruit?" and "If you had $10 what fruit would you buy?"....I think eventhough this is not strictly exam practise I think its a very worthwhile and meaningful way to communicate.
So I got thinking!!! I want to use technology to communicate with my students more. I am thinking instead of having a post box in my English room where students can write letters to me, why don't I have a blog to do that instead.
I can post up good work examples for students to see and comment on. I can post up topical things from the daily news or upcoming events and I can even post up some photostories. Its much more for fun for students and accessessible to everyone in the school. Students generally speak only to other students in their class or year so this way P6 students can help and communicate with P3 students through this blog.
What do you think guys?
Well I made 2 blogs for two of my classes. One for P6 and one for P5. Alot of the students were very interested in participating in the blog however it is pretty time consuming because you have to constantly update the blog all the time to keep the students interested and reply to their comments.
ReplyDeleteBut definately worth doing. Its good exposure for children of new literacies.