Why Post Students' Work on the Internet?

After watching the PS 22 Chorus Landslide video, I was so moved. I think that it is important for children, like these, to be able to share their work, their thoughts, their feelings, with whomever will listen. I think that it is empowering to students and gives them confidence. They can share their work with others and see how it affects others, and it allows them to get feedback through comments. In these children's case, they received an invitation to do the song again at Fleetwood Mack's show in Madison Square Garden, which would not have happened if their video had not been posted on the internet. I also think that students need to share information with others as a part of being an active member of the world in which they live. They receive information from the internet all the time, so posting their work to their blogs, and sharing it in other ways, allows them to give back. These reasons I just listed are why I want to have my future students do blogs.

This is just one example of why students should share their work, by posting a YouTube video and getting a major response from it. There are a few other reasons that students should share their work on the internet and connect themselves with the world. They can share their work through blogs, just like Mrs. Goerend's class does. This allows students to share stories and thoughts with a vast audience. The comments they receive about their posts can be used as feedback for praise or for improvement, both are good. Also, when students connect with other students through programs such as Facebook, they can share ideas, information, and advice. They can support each other, help each other in problem areas, and share stories that will help each other get through similar situations. They can connect with other students outside of their area and learn from them as well to get a very different point of view from their own. Another reason why students should share their work on the internet is because they can help others. Students are always looking to the internet as a resource of information. Posting their own work gives them the opportunity to help other people or make other people think. I think that some students can do this through their blog posts or by posting a video on YouTube. One example that I have encountered that really made me think was the video of A Vision of Students Today. I considered my own college experience and how things could be better, and I think that most people that watch that video have to be stimulated to think about college classes. Another video that moved me was the video that Mr. Chamberlain's class did, Dear Kaia, because those students took the time to make a little girl and her dad happy by encouraging her photography and his "find the beauty in everything" attitude. I thought that it was so nice for them to do this, and I am sure that it helped Kaia and her dad by supporting them. So you can see, it is important for students to post their work to their blogs, or in other ways. It gives them a chance to get connected with the rest of the world, which helps them learn more and have a better chance for success.