Russell Street School Review

Russell Street School is a blog that contains blogs and information about a school in New Zealand. On the blog you are able to find different classes and student work.

On the Room 9 blog you can see what homework they have been assigned, and what they are doing and learning about in their classroom. On that same blog you are able to access different student blogs. The students use their blogs like an online portfolio/showcase of their work. They post completed work and assignments. They also have videos of different activities that have done in class. Each blog has its own personal touch put on it by the student. The students have added pictures of different things that they like, as well as things that they do in their free time. I really like that students each have their own blogs and add different content to them. 

Having the students blog in the classroom is a great way to get students comfortable with using blogs and technology in the classroom. It would be interesting to see how the teachers at this school monitor the blogs, and if they require a certain number of posting or if they give the students prompts on what to write. I have heard of students having their own blogs for learning, but I have not been able to see it in action. I love being able to see firsthand how the Russell Street School is able to do this.