Digital Blog #F

The first point I would like to bring up on this weeks blog, is the electronic communication between teachers and students. The book suggest that many ways for students and teachers to connect, e-mails, text messaging, classroom websites, blogs, online discussions, and Wikis. Getting in contact with ones teacher is the easiest thing to do. Reminding students of up coming test or assignments, extra assistance, peer to peer tutoring's. It's a little extra work for teachers, but these are excellent tools to have student-teacher interaction. Extending a hand even when the students are home.

Using E-mail as a teacher, is the second point I will be brushing up on. This portion of the chapter was a little funny to read, just because of the "text lingo." It's true, we must keep out with the current "lingo" so we can properly communicate with our student. Even though, I would prefer proper grammar and complete sentences, even in text. I really like the suggestion of an office hour, where the teacher make themselves available for the students to get into contact with them.

The final summary will be on Websites and Blogs for Teachers and Students. I think this would be fun to do, post reminders, have the students submit homework or reports. So many things can be done with having a classroom website. Like the book indicates, a teacher could also have a blog where they keep journals and publish information. However one decides to make a website or blog, lets try to promote education.

Maloy, R. (2014). Teaching Information Literacy and Digital Citizenship. In Transforming learning with new technologies (2nd ed.). Upper saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.