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Using Blog Tools For Storytelling & Picture Diaries
By caroline | March 6, 2009
Some time ago, IDK ran a piece about making picture diaries for natural language development and keeping weekly diaries to teach literacy.
Parents and teachers at some schools send home-school books back and forth with a child who’s deaf, to keep a running log of what’s learned in classes.
Blogs can actually become a substitute for home-school books if community links are strong and both parties are comfortable with internet tools.
For older children who use ISL as a first language, video tools and blogs are one way to document class work (maybe captioned) for sharing with others.
How blogs can benefit children with hearing issues:
- Story-telling (using pictures, text & video to tell a story in ISL or English)
- Language development (recounting experiences, school trips, holidays)
- Photos (making an online slide show with labels, discussing past topics)
- Homework (clarifying subjects under review, adding background detail)
- Completing assignments and/or relaying teaching information via ISL
- Logging information for reference, feedback or comments at a later date
- Acting as a virtual information repository for access from home or school
- Easy communication between parents & teachers (classroom or resource)
- Optional interfacing with whiteboards for wider classroom discussions
Blogs are effective teaching tools as students drive their learning in an engaged manner, experiential teaching is practised & topics are accessible. Visual learning is also facilitated as the students’ thinking is made visible.
The challenge for teachers is to integrate digital tools into the daily routine – but that is another topic in itself.
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