Thank you for your registration for the Blogging in the Classroom workshop, part of EDCO's Web 2.0 series. In preparation for our first session, I'd like you to take a look at two brief articles, both of which can be found online. They are:
Click here to read “Writing With Web Logs” by Kristen Kennedy.
Click here to read “Why Blog?” by Frank Catalano.
Note that the second article has multiple pages; follow the links at the bottom of the screen, or select the printer-friendly version to see it all at once.
If you have any difficulty accessing the articles or have any questions, please drop me a line. I look forward to meeting you on Tuesday.
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I am intimidated by all this!!
I viewed the blog of the BLA teacher's Facing History program as well as Stacy's Arlington High blog, and find everything I've seen very inspiring and exciting!!!!!!!!! Some observations I have are:
1) a few great questions from the teacher can spark fabulous student dialogue,
2) Open dialogue among students seems very democratic since they choose what issues are most interesting to them to respond to. The BLA teacher seems to have put 5-10 questions out there and let students respond to whichever they were most interested in; some were more popular than others.
3) Students seem to write their responses as brainstorms or a transcript of verbal conversation, which can be annoying to me as an English teacher who wants to see concise writing in Academic English. What's a good way to encourage/enforce this?
4) I love the ability to link to select web resources and thoughtful tidbits, eg. cartoons, word-a-day, quotes, etc.
5) It's all so clean and beautiful! This is a lovely presentation of an English class.
6) Stacy is such a great teacher!!!
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