HUH??
After having created a fun blog and played around with it a little, I would like to use a blog for documenting a long term project or an interdisciplinary project. That would be a long term goal of mine. The students could post about their hypotheses, procedures, investigations and conclusions. I would be able to work collaboratively with my students but better yet, another teacher from another department. Last year, the PreCalculus curriculum was rewritten to facilitate ease of transition for physics students. This would be a perfect opportunity to create a lot of meaningful product. My only concern is time.
I would have to explore the possibility of a blog for a more immediate use. I would love to display student work, see their discussions with each other on a topic or problem. I would incorporate video lessons that would enable me to do a flipped classroom from time to time. I would post links to relevant articles that I have found for which the students would be given an assignment.
The ideas are coming! Glad I am writing them down.
I had the same thought about an inter-disciplinary project, but forgot to write it in my post. One area of weakness we pinpointed for NEASC is collaboration time, both in and out of our discipline. If you could get another teacher on board the blog express, it could make collaboration that much easier (or harder).
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I like your idea of publishing student math work so they can comment on each other's. I wonder if they can find mistakes and help their peer understand where they made their mistakes. What a great way for kids to learn from each other. I bet the concepts that they didn't understand initially would become more internalized by doing this.
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