After reading the sections on blogging, I have a new perspective! Prior to the reading, I wasn't sure just how I could incorporate blogs into my classroom. I honestly thought it would be a waste of time. Now, after reading, I have come up with a few ideas on how I could make blogging "worth it" for my students. I especially liked the list of classroom uses of weblogs. It provided me with a list of ideas that I wouldn't have thought of on my own.
Being a health teacher, I like to have my students do personal reflections on the various health lessons. Blogging these thoughts gives students a chance to reflect in a different way, and I especially like the fact that other students could comment, and therefore, relate to others. :)
In PE, this could be a great way for students to keep tabs on their fitness. Others could offer advice or new ideas!
I am really looking forward to incorporating blogs in my classroom!
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What about a health or nutrition blog on living a healthy lifestyle, where they kept an online diary of what they do each day. Include meals, activities, & exercise! Then they could say how they feel about their choices and what they could do to improve. I think that could be an interesting blog to read.
Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition! I think that your students could benefit from as much access to nutrition as possible. Healthy lifestyles, excercise and good old fruits and vegetables are things where enough information is not readily available to students. The blog could become even more interesting if you got some of the other teachers to incorporate thoughts health and nutrition.
Jevonna
I think your idea of a place of reflection is great. Students thoughts are read by others (who may feel the same way, but don't want to admit it) and commented on so ideas and thoughts are refined and developed.
Yes, I believe your students will benefit from this type of activity. Your students online dairy of their activities could include the FITT principle, what parts of the body are being worked during the activity, and the effect that specific activity had on their health-related fitness areas.
If you school has some mobile labs, they are the perfect tool for this. Our PE teachers have used the mobile labs for projects in the gym and it worked out much better than schlepping everyone up to the lab. You've got some great ideas - both yours and the others posted. It sounds like it would be fun to try.
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