The purpose of this blog is to create a focal point for our Blogging Project: Project BLOGSTARS. The aim of the project is to encourage quality writing through blogging within our students at Mount Annan Christian College. It is a funded project by AGTQP 2013, which is a government initiative to improve teaching quality, through the use of technology.
Writing is an essential skill that all students need to do well. Our outcomes for the project is to see the quality of student engagement in writing to improve through Blogging. Blogging provides a platform which allows students writing to be accessed by an authentic audience of parents, peers and the wider community.It is an opportunity to showcase what they learnt learning and how they learnt it. It will allow the students to improve their skills in technology as well.
The project will give teacher's skills in using blogging and other ICT skills as a way of developing their student's literacy skills and engaging them in the learning process. It is also about creating a learning journal that can be referred to by other teachers, and allowing interaction and input from them, as a way of sharing ideas. Blogging can also become a very valuable tool in creating that link between school and home.
Parents will be encouraged to join us in this journey too. We will be holding an information night and Blogging Awareness month to highlight blogging within the school and to raise its profile among families. It is to be hoped that they start to respond and interact in the ongoing conversations on class blogs.
Digital Citizenship will also be addressed through this project. Educating families about Online safety and responsible online safety is an ongoing and important issue to address, as there are many issues that our students and their families face while using the internet.
What do you know about blogging? How do you feel about using technology and its use in the classroom? What do you think student's will be able to achieve through blogging?
