Middle School Information Technology

This is the middle school IT blog maintained by Ms. C. On this site you can find news about middle school IT, all resources for the middle school IT classes, links to the middle school IT integration projects, as well as links to various helpful websites and student produced work. Take a look around and explore what our fantastic middle school students are doing with technology this year. Use the tabs above to navigate through the site.

What’s a blog?

Wikipedia defines a blog as, “A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order.”

“Blogging is the posting of journal-like pages to a website. While these pages can contain photos or media, they are primarily focused on the easy ability to post written thoughts to a website. The postings are organized chronologically. Typically, a blog “post” can be “commented” on by others, allowing for a dialogue on a the topic of the post. Teachers and educators have used blogs to allow for what is commonly called “peer review,” meaning that students can post writings or assignments to the web, and other students can respond or encourage through the comment feature.

“In a broader and more educational system, blogs are about communicating. You observe your experience, reflect on it, and then write about it. Other people read your reflections, respond from their perspectives by commenting or writing their own blog article. You read their perspectives, often learn something through their eyes, and write some more.

1. Blogging is about reading and writing.
2. Literacy is about reading and writing.
3. Blogging is about literacy. (dfw)“

Quote from: Support Blogging, Educational Blogging. [http://supportblogging.wikispaces.com/Educational+Blogging] Retrieved on 20 November 2006.