Sharing - Set up blog for teaching

Before attending this module, I never read any blog or gave comment on blog although I knew there are ‘blogs’. When I set up my first personal blog for this module, I start to apply ‘blog’ on my own teaching because I want to have various communications with my students and help them in study not only in class.
This year, I teach ‘Integrated Humanities’. It’s the first time for me to teach this new subject. My target students are two Form 1 classes. Sometimes, I’m exhausted in searching information in teaching them and do not have time to introduce all the ideas in class. In addition, there is not enough time for me to take care all of them after school. After I’d appl
ied blog in my studying, I planned to apply blog in one of the class project – a play. I hoped all students could participate in this project. For example, some searched relevant information, wrote the script, took up various positions in this play and gave comments for further improvement.

The followings are the links to read the blogs:
MISS LEE ~ I.H. ~1D
http://karen-andkaren.blogspot.com/
Miss Lee ~ IH ~1B
http://misskarenlee.blogspot.com/

From the two blogs, I find that there are two different studying patterns of these two classes. Students of class 1D are active in the blog. They like to give suggestion or comment on classmates’ ideas. However, students of class 1B are not so active. Fewer students participate in the discussion. For self-evaluation, I found that I sometimes liked students in class 1B. My response on my own blog was not frequent, too. When I said that I was too busy to work and study at the same time, I wondered what the excuses of my students were. Maybe I need to participate more in discussion and have the habit to read and give feedback in the blog first. Then, I can share with my students how they can fully utilize the blog in learning. Thus, next year, I’m going to apply blog in teaching earlier. Let students have the habit to discuss in the blog on different topics that they learn.