Blogs for Events, Reflection, and Show and Tell
When looking through the Russell Street School blogs, it at first reminded of me of what our principal does with his blog. He calls it the Harter Happenings (our school is Harter Middle School) and he posts it every week on Friday. It has upcoming events, meetings, and information that we need to know as teachers. In addition, he also has shoutouts and awards based on teacher recommendations. The first page I looked at reminded me of this as it had different events and activities that were taking place in the school. So using a blog as a way to keep parents informed of events taking place in the community and school would be something to think about creating. One of the new things that I took away from looking at the different levels' blogs is to use it to have students showcase work they are proud of and why. Using it as a reflection tool is great and helps them get more engaged in the classroom. Quite a few of the blogs had either teacher or student posted pictures and videos o...