I have been brainstorming ways to use blogging in my classroom and content area. One of the things that I try to advocate and promote in my physics class is how the science that we are learning about pertains to real life. Throughout the year I try to have my students do short writing assignments where they relate the content we are studying to an interest or hobby that they have outside of class.
Blog posts might be an effective way to do this in the future. Using a class blog, an assigned student each week could be responsible for blogging about how the content studied that week relates to something that they do in their free time. If they are comfortable doing so, they could include pictures or videos of themselves to make it more personal. Or they could add images and diagrams to help explain the scientific concepts. The other students would then comment on the post, adding to or critiquing the science applications.
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