This year, my classes are blogging again. Has been a while, for our department abandoned this tool some time ago.
This past week, each student created his/her own blog...and the engagement was 100%. Totally. Maybe this comment summed up this assigned task: "This is fun. Why can't we do more things like this?"
We can. As in one post a week kind of fun. :)
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We have now begun week three of blogging, with my assigning topics, sometimes a single topic, sometimes allowing choice of three, planning ahead, announcing today that Writer's Notebook will become a house of topic choices.
So far? HUGE success, with the students posting, thinking, discussing.
In another week or so, the goal remains to take this to the next step: creating dialogue online via the comments. Using the links to each class, each student, the writers will be assigned two blogs to read and add comments. Using the lists of blogs, the students will rotate through the list, the end result being they read and comment on all the blogs this spring semester.
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As much as we love social media, why not utilize a tool or two within the classroom?
Tell me...what teacher does not enjoy a quiet classroom...with every student engaged...type, type, typing their thoughts?
Just cool.
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