Idea for Using a Blog in the Classroom

Although I only have three computers in my classroom I think that creating a blog collaboratively with my class would work on a subject we are going over right now. The idea is to collect student opinions on whether the NASA budget, particularly the moon program, should be cut as was proposed. This is something that my students are very interested in and I think it would serve them well to see how other students around the country, let alone around the world, feel about this. It would be a great way to interact with other people from different back grounds. I am not sure how I would get this blog well known enough to be successful but I think that just the experience of blogging and communicating through the Internet would be valuable in it self.

First Blog Posting

My name is Phil Palumbo. I am a student in a masters degree program for educational technology at the online university of Walden University. As a requirement for one of my classes I am to create a blog for anyone who wants to read or respond. For my first subject I would like to pose a question based on my situation. I have 38 eighth grade science students in my classroom that I would like to expose to educational technology. I have in my classroom 2 windows computers with access to the internet, also I have my teachers' computer that can display on a screen for the whole class. This is all the technology that is available to my students. I would like to know of any suggestions as to what would be the best use of these limited resources in the classroom. How can each student best benefit from this? Please respond.