Una’s Blog

I just read the article Indigenous Students Connect with Blogs (Education Views, 16(11), June 6, 2007, p.17).

This article is about a teacher who used a blog to connect with her students doing a specific program while she was overseas. It says that it took her two weeks to teach the students how to use a weblog, but after that the students responded very enthusiastically to the project. She used it to give them information and photos from her trip to China, and in that way got the students interested in the places she was going and seeing. One example is when she went to visit the Great Wall of China, she got the students to do research on it, and discuss their impressions with the class online.

The most impressive thing about this article was that it described a legitimate reason for the students to start using a blog. I believe that once they had that experience it would be easier to use a blog again, and possibly in more complex and collaborative ways next time.