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Blogging everywhere ... HS Trips, IB Port B, Health, PE, ELL, PFL, Biology.

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Along this school year, the idea of blogging and its use in the classroom has been taking shape. It started with my workshop on the use of Blogger and then some conversations began around the topic. So what we can see now at Graded is a range of  applications of the blogging concept in a variety of subject areas. Blogging has often been a tool indicated for the reflection part of an eportfolio, which on its turn is used as a vehicle for self-evaluation.  We have several teachers exploring with the idea of eportfolio, and  Felipe in  PE   has been experimenting the use of student blogs to   reflect on performance  and share assessments. They have been making video recordings of students doing fitness tests for example and sharing on the blog for student reflection and comment. So each student has a personal blog which is linked to the teacher's blog. Felipe's blog is used for sharing  news and information . One interesting sharing with the student is shown on the image below. It