Until Christmas I am teaching ICT once a week to two primary 4 classes and two primary 3 classes I hope to introduce blogging or use wikis in the time I am with them. I have tweeted about this and I have had lots of good advised but I felt I needed to go back to beginning and work out why I wanted to introduce these to the classes.
Looking at the ICT plans for previous years the children had been producing documents in Word which when I spoke to the class teachers I was told they were just sent home. This got me thinking that instead of producing Word documents the children could produce the work online in a blog or a wiki. So what to choose?
I only have the children once a week and want them to use the blog or wiki during my lesson. For example in the next few weeks the P4 classes are starting a topic on Vikings instead of them producing word documents on a Viking I thought this could be stored on line. They could do Vokis or write and format information or if they have produced art work it could be photographed and included on a post.
So what to do? Do I set up a class blog where it is updated by different children every week? Do I set up individual blogs where the children can update their own blogs? Or do I use a wiki? As I teach in Scotland should I do this within Glow or not – currently the children don’t have access to Glow. If I started it outside of Glow could I then import it into Glow?
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Thanks
Lots of interesting questions. One way to avoid answering them would be to have all the children work on a wiki and have a class blog. rotate the pupil who posts to the blog.
I’ve made a test and the wordpress.com export then import to a glow wordpress blog works well.
Update on this blog post – I had finally decided to use blogs, but won’t get a chance to put into action. I have been offered another job this time full time again short term temporary. The research I have done will be put to use some other time