Russel Street School in NZ is really on the cutting edge of blogging in the classrooms. I found the video productions to be very informative, and the integration of subject areas to be inspiring. I noticed that many of the student blogs were integrating math and science rather than art and literature on their blogs. This led me to wonder if the Science and Math instructors are more easily integrating the use of blogging in their classrooms, or if there are other things preventing the Language Arts from being more fully represented in their blogs.
Besides all the student driven blogs, there were classroom blogs, and most interestingly, there were a multitude of links provided to other school and classroom blogs. The internet is ripe with classroom blogging activities, which gives me pause.... Where is the internet access in my classroom? Having worked in several school districts over the course of the last ten years, I have noticed that the smaller districts are actually able to make internet access more available to their students than the larger districts. Is this because of a jaded cynicism on the part of the bigger districts? Do they just have more experience dealing with hackers, vandals and litigation than the smaller districts? Are smaller school districts able to keep better track of student usage and parental involvement, and thus able to make activities like classroom blogging more available to their students? It is an interesting conundrum, and one I would like to explore more.
Shanda Veatch
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