Shoomp is a great website that has many resources that help students with anything that they need to do well in school. The website is very user friendly, so it is easy to use. When you first go on the website there are different tabs that you can click on depending on what you need. Some will lead to study tools, others to test prep, and there are some that can help you plan out you want to do in the future. Shoomp also has videos on different topics, so if you are having trouble with a subject it is easy to find the video on the subject and try and understand it.
In chapter 9 they talked about blogs. I would like to use blogs with my students because I feel like it will help them want to write more. Students will be able to post their own ideas and write about topics that are interesting to them and then have people read and comment on their post. Students will also be able to read and comment on other peoples post. There are many different websites that can be used to help students start their own blog. The digital citizenship concepts that will be addressed are student participation in the community because while using blogs people from all over are able to read what the student has written.
While working on the newsletter assignment I was able to practice using different things on Word. In class I learned a lot of new things that I could use in Word to make my assignments look better, like adding graphics, and I was able to use the things I learned in class in this assignment. I really enjoyed this assignment. Being able to write our own stories was really fun.
Great post, Kiarha! Blogs are an excellent tool to encourage students to write more. There are many studies that show that blogs can also improve writing skills and student attitudes about writing. Nice work!
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