How blogging could be used in classrooms

Much like we have been doing, children could be posed with a question and asked to email their responses to the blog website. The pupils could then be asked to comment on at least two other ideas in order to generate discussion.

Alternatively, blogs could be used as a starter point to the "holiday" idea previously mentioned by Anthony in today's session. The children could have their own individual blogs and be asked to update it like a diary over a holiday break. The children could all be linked together in an online group with the teacher having a school specific blog (to adhere to safeguarding issues) to view and use in the classroom. This would help to develop the children's ICT skills, in addition to their English writing while staying on the topic of Geography; where they have been, what they have done and the different areas of Geography they look at in everyday life. This would be in relation to human, environmental and social geographies, personal to the children and the class as a collective.

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