How I can use blogs in my clssroom

There are several things that stand out as possible blogging opportunities in my classroom.  Over the years visuals and viewing the art of famous and current professional artists has always been problematic.  Materials are very expensive, and field trips are always difficult to arrange, and limiting based on what resources we have in our community.  Here in Buffalo, we are fortunate to have great resources, but a one time trip to the Albright Knox is not enough!  As a result, blogging seems as if it would provide a great opportunity to open up the world of museums to students.  

1.)To start, I would like to post a picture and have students respond to it, and answer each others questions.  A beginning dialogue about art.

2.) I would like students to post children's museum sites, and facilitate a discussion about the merits of these sites.  There are many activities available for students on these sites

3.) The goal would be to have students talking about art.  Using common vocabulary, and eventually be able to have these conversations about there own work.

These are just beginning ideas, I think there are wonderful applications to this discipline.  Unfortunately, the school district blocks these sites at this time, but hopefully the policy will change.

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