My students loved using the blog for their write-ups of the Natural History of Alaska (BIO 104) field trips this summer. They were given a few guidelines then left to be creative in how they interpreted those guidelines. The guidelines were: date, time, weather, location, list of species identified & a short narrative. Only one of my four students (very small class) was local & two were from other continents. They ended up writing, as much for the folks back home, as for the class. It allowed them to share their explorations with the world & their friends as well as post pictures of the places and themselves in the places. It surpassed my expectations as a learning tool! Thanks for showing me this avenue & 'making' me use it in the class. When I have time I will summarize their lists into a single list for each location. My plan is to keep the blog, maybe add some of my own observations & use it for other classes. It may not be the best tool, but it will be a start at a comprehensive document of species for PWS. We took a 3 hour trip twice a week near town, with one all day trip to Columbia Glacier and an overnight to McCarthy.
Clicking on the title should take you to the classroom blog.
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