Comments on: Getting Kids to Blog

By: Mike Wills, Jr.

Mike Wills, Jr. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:46:06 +0000

I remember going to Junior High School in 96-98 and hating when a teacher assigned us to write in a journal. At the same time, I used to head to the computer lab and learned HTML, creating a geocities website. I updated it often so it was essentially the same thing as the journals I hated. It’s something fresh and the personalization that children will get with themes, photos, etc. will give them the incentive they need to write when they may otherwise hate to. I hope that made sense haha.

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By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:53:31 +0000

This is lovely work and I really like the scaffold as it has just made me realize what my Yr 10 Drama students are lacking.
The only thing I would add – is that you emphasized that blog provide an authentic audience – yet the scaffold has no reference to who the created text are for? At this point is it simple class peers who view this?
The Uluru exercise struck me as being proposed as a ‘Letter of apology’ to tourist arriving at international airports, explaining why Australia had taken the decision to ban the climbing of Uluru. The defining of audience brings another level of analysis that the students could engage in.
Cheers

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:50:55 +0000

Chris,

The grid of blogging prompts is a great idea. I have just begun with a year 11 class on a journey which will lead them to blogging. I have set up feeds for them to read and respond to via a public netvibes universe. The idea in my mind is to have them experience blogs and respond to them prior to starting their own blog. When they use a blog in my class it will be specifically for ongoing evaluation and collaboration, so it needs to be effective in our context. I hope to achieve this by having them read relevant blogs and respond to them.

BTW, one of the blogs they are encouraged to read and respond to is my blogging of thoughts about teaching an learning in our class.

By: xpatasia

xpatasia — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:34:35 +0000

Chris,
This is a fantastic post. I really love your style of describing this step by step and giving both the pedagogical and the technological aspects in the one post. On the latter, did you have to manually create the OPML file or is this something that edublogs does for you when you create multiple blogs with them? I have not tried this out but I will pass this onto interested teachers here in Hong Kong. (I think that there may be 2!!!)
Keep up the good sharing!
Cheers
Paul

By: Tomaz Lasic

Tomaz Lasic — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:09:22 +0000

This will go down a treat with an English teacher I have been working with and who is keen to dip her toes into blogging with her Year 8 class at our school.

Above all – great teaching (without that, all technology in the world could not help)! Well done and thanks for sharing.

Tomaz

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:11:56 +0000

We’ve just started a blogging class so I was really interested to see how you structured it for assessment. Thanks.

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Recently Tagged 093008 « Fusion Finds — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:26:33 +0000

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By: Janetta Garton

Janetta Garton — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:31:45 +0000

I think the chart of blogging prompts is exceptional. I will be sharing this with our teachers. Thanks for the inspiration.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:02:46 +0000

I am a student at the University of South Alabama and was wondering if I could talk with you further about how you use technology in your classroom or at your school. Its apart of a project for my Educational Technology class. I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on incorporating technology. My email is lmc509@jaguar1.usouthal.edu. Id greatly appreciate it!
Lisa