Blog Post 5 – Collaboration Through Integrating LMS and Blogging

This week we learned about collaboration tools in class. I located a very interesting and relevant article concerning integrating LMS software into classrooms. Learning Management Systems (LMS) are collaboration tools throughout school systems and within many classrooms. These are tools that help educators get information to students as well as monitor and assess students. Many districts have created or adopted LMS software applications so that teachers can record student grades and deliver content.

Most teachers have used some type of LMS tool even if their district does not use anything in particular. For example, the article talks about how Edmodo, Canvas, and even our very well known Moodle are Learning Management Systems. The article also implicates how LMS are great options to reach students based on the large amount of time that students currently spend using technological devices. Personally, I would love to know how LMS helps to reach students at any and every level. For example, I would like to know how LMS systems work best in SPED classrooms and how they are best used in this setting.

Resource:

Sampson, A. (2018, June 28). LMS Software and the Integration of Technology in the Classroom. Retrieved October 8, 2018, from https://www.thetechedvocate.org/lms-software-and-the-integration-of-technology-in-the-classroom/

This week I also discovered an awesome collaboration tool through the use of Google named Kidblog. Kidblog is a site that allows students to create blogs, and teachers the ability to moderate and comment. This gives teachers the ability to view all content before publishing it, creating a safe environment. Personally, I would like to give students topics of content learned and have them write about it on Kidblog. This would serve as a formative assessment to determine whether students have mastered content or not. One challenge to using this tool would be assuring that students are discussing the required toping while blogging.

Kidblog can be found at https://kidblog.org