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Media presentation of blogs in the class.

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I have decided to do my presentation on Blogs in the classroom. Week 3 assignment.

In regards to the selection of the innovation I have selected for the use in my field, I have chosen the use of blogs as a new means of technology in the day to day use of the classroom setting for students and parents. With the use of blogs, teachers can have instant communication with parents and students on a day to day basis. With this communication parents are able to become more involved with the ongoing operations of their child’s educational journey. The reason I selected the innovation of the blog as compared to the Soft Chalk Lesson Builder and the Interactive White Boards is the ease of being able to bring the entire staff on board, the minimal amount of cost and the ease to which staff members can be trained and maintained on the new resource that is being provided for use. With regards to the two other resources as mentioned above, if either one of these innovations were selected one would be looking at large sums of money for the initial start up cost, a vast amount of time would be spent on the training and implementation of the new devices and not every staff member would be able to be brought on board at the same time because of the cost of each product as compared to the use of the blogging system that could be put into place for each member. To support my choice for the use of blogs in the classroom, the study //Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom//(Huffaker, 2005). In his study the article explores the role of weblogs in promoting literacy in classroom settings. With the use of weblogs, students and parents are in constant contact with the teacher and thus with this daily communication between parent, student and teacher effective means of literacy can take place which can only benefit the student’s educational foundation. Therefore weblogs provide an excellent tool where storytelling and literacy advance for both individual expression and collaborative learning. Furthermore, weblogs can be used across academic disciplines, making it a viable tool for educational technologists(Huffaker, 2005).