I’m trying something new with my students…a blog. I’m not sure how this will play out. The idea is simple, but I’ve learned that a simple idea can turn into something complex, complicated, and convoluted quite quickly. (How much alliteration can I slip in here?)
The plan is that my students will respond to prompts that I post on the blog as they read books, articles, poems, and epics.
Our new blog is entitled We Read, Think, and Write (http://ireadthinkwrite.wordpress.com/).
I’ll let you know how this works.
I’m thinking y’all are going to have fun.
I certainly hope so. It seems like a good idea to me…preparing them for real-world 21st century skills.
I’m eager to hear how this turns out!
I will post updates. Thanks.
what a great idea, really wish we had this technology when I was younger, how things would be different I dont know but the worlds a smaller place for it.
I hope that the students use it and enjoy it. There were some groans (of more work to do) when I presented it today.
Hey there, Mona:
We’re doing something similar with edublogs and our students with our 21st Century Learning project – wikis, glogs and blogs.
Our Junior high language arts classes have linked with other classrooms around Canada and in one instance have connected with Lois Lowry who has agreed to answer questions about her novel The Giver.
Definitely a good step, more than a journaling exercise … a place for making writing etc. meaningful.
That’s why I want to do this…to make their writing more meaningful and introduce them to life beyond word processing and badly designed PowerPoints.
Good luck with the experiment – writing provides such a release.
Thank you. I do hope they use it as a way to express themselves when they wouldn’t feel free to do so otherwise.