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Blogs

 = Using Blogs in a classroom can be very useful! Blogs are personal online journals. Blogs can be used in the classroom as a homework tool. You can give your students something to reflect on and then have them post their reflection on a post. You can have your students create blogs take notes on chapters they have read, so you can look back and see if they have done their readings. There are many, many different things you can do with blogs. = = = = = = = = Blogs are a good way of using the UDL appoach because you are engaging the students by the use of technolgy. I think using blogs is a good way to allow everyone to have something to say about the lesson, even if they cannot say it in class. This allows students to go home and speak their minds about a lesson. Teachers can be checking for student responces each night or next morning. = = = = = = = = As a teacher, you would be using the Maryland Teacher Technology Standard II (Communication) and National Education Technology Standard of Communication & Collaboration, Research and Information Fluency, and Technology Operations & Concepts = = = = = = = = Get started using Blogs here: www.blogger.com Here is the blogs I posted for my class: = = @http://technobiography4boothe.blogspot.com/I wrote blogs based on what my teacher had assigned for my class. = = = = = = = = If you have any other questions about Blogs, please email me at cbooth2@students.towson.edu =