Blog Bling

The video I chose was a reading of "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss.  I picked this video because with the ecology unit I have the students read the story and watch the "old" video.  Adding this link to a blog would allow some of my students who miss the day of the reading and video to still be able to hear it and get caught up as we do a large project based on the story. 

I have added three new gadgets to my page, followers, Discovery news and daily fun quotes.  The Discovery news I really like as I have my students do a science current event and those that are having a hard time finding one could use this from my blog.  The other two gadgets were just for fun. 

I think that using a blog in my classroom could be helpful with posting assignments we are working on and answering common questions that pop up.  This would limit the number of times that I would have to answer the same question. 

Some of the other bolging layouts that look like they would be helpful are Edmodo and Schoology.  It would be interesting to be able to allow students to respond to each others questions and to add what they are thinking about different topics.  It could also be used for digital turning in of assignments and reduce the amount of paper.