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**Blog Site**
[|Tim's Blog Site] In math, I have my students explain how they solved their problems in pictures, words, or numbers. They actually get credit for showing me their work and if they get the correct answer they also get credit for that also. It gives me something to see how they solved the problem. You probably could have the students explain how they solved a certain problem or maybe come up with a story problem and have the other students solve them. I just put together a survey for my blog page that I just created. You could even have students gather data for math using a blog page survey. In reading, you could have students use the blog site to have them type responses to the books they read. You could respond back and ask them questions for when you meet with them in class. Another way that I could see you could using a blog site for your weekly newsletters is have the students submit articles and survey questions for you or the students to put in the newsletters. It should be easy for you, but maybe hard for the students. I think there **must** be a purpose to be blogging in the classroom. You just can't have students chatting on the blog or it will get out of control. You must have a purpose that the students are doing it. You should set a goal in what you have your students respond to. I really only see a couple things for me that I would use it for. I am willing to give it a try next year and hopefully it will be successful experience for the students and me!


 * Technology Assignment:**

[|Web 2.0 Site]
I looked at a handful of them and a lot of them are for people in general to use for creating a website or household things like managing your money. I see the benefit in it, but like someone said that it can be overwhelming to look at all of them. I liked the totspot.com, Kidzui.com, all the pictures sites, video, & online radio sites. There is some sites that I found that I think students would be interested in, too. Some are: [|http://www.pikikids.com], [|Zoho-Online Word Processor] [|Flesh- Document Reading Calculator]


