When debating which form of technology to use to create my
online portfolio for this class, I decided to choose something I have never
done before; a blog. In the past I have
created and managed a website and a wiki.
By choosing to create a blog I could gain new experience and insight to
an unfamiliar form of technology. The
most challenging part of creating the blog was figuring the ins and outs of
adding to it. After reviewing a few
classmates’ blogs, I discovered you could create tabs, similar to the ones
found on websites. After asking how to
create a tab, I spent time reorganizing my blog to a more “user friendly”
format. Doing this was easy; it just
takes the knowledge and a little practice.
I liked gaining the experience of creating a blog; it gave
me the idea to have my STEM students create blogs. Students could organize a
tab for each STEM investigation. The benefit
of doing this would be that they are getting an additional technology aspect of
STEM and they are creating something they can keep. My future students will be making blogs; this
will be their online STEM journals.
Students will follow the engineering design process, and opposed to
presenting everything in their STEM journals, they can make a virtual
journal. In the online STEM journal I envision
students planning, recording data, posting videos, and sharing successes and/or
failures online, as well as, doing their end of unit reflections. I look forward to incorporating blogs into my
STEM curriculum.
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