Chapter 8 blog post

Focus Question: How can teachers use email or instant messaging to foster information exchanges with and among students? Email and instant messaging is one of the largest ways of communicating between each other. Teachers use email to communicate with students, colleagues and families. So why not bring it into your classroom for not only giving students the option to contact you on the weekend via email or as teachers we can even set up a time once a week and offer a instant message hour for any students who need help, it will help students who feel shy about asking questions in person. But argued in the book it is true that a lot of instant messages/texts can be misread.  
Tech Tool: One of the tech tools that was offered was our very own blogger from Google. we use this blog for our very own class. Each student has a blog in which our teacher and other students can view each others blog and can help use it for research. It also gives people a chance to create their own blogs for the public.
Summary: Chapter eight talks about all the ways that teachers and students use computers and other ways to share information and ideas in the classrooms and online public. The first couple of sections talk about the different websites that can come about with teaching that you can use with the class. Blogs are pretty popular because students can write their ideas or homework and it gives students and teachers a chance to comment on their blogs. Another type of communication that was spoken about instant messaging and email is used for communicating with students and colleagues.




Maloy, Robert W. Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.