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g n i g g o l B Jenny Buttler e h t n and i Crystal Boyd m o o r s H s i l l a C o u l n C t r y M i d d l e S c h o o l E a n e s I . S . D . Go here to sign up for door

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@mrs_buttler @theboydroom

Jenny Buttler and Crystal Boyd


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@mrs_buttler @theboydroom

  • 7th Grade ELA
  • 5 Classes
  • 2 Co-teach
  • 3 PreAP
  • 144 Students
  • 8th Grade ELA
  • 5 Classes
  • 2 Co-teach
  • 3 PreAP
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You can also find us here:

Jenny:

My personal blog: www.jennybuttler.com Our classroom blog: edublogs.eanesisd.net/jbuttler Our class website: hcmsbuttler.eanesisd.net Twitter: @mrs_buttler

What about you? Are you a blogger?

Crystal:


 Our classroom blog: edublogs.eanesisd.net/cboyd Our class website: hcmsboyd.eanesisd.net Twitter: @theboydroom

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Please join us here:

Dotstorming: goo.gl/XB8u4P

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Inquiring minds want to know:

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Inquiring minds want to know:

Jenny: Can blogging and connecting with other students and teachers from around the world help students become better writers.

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Inquiring minds want to know:

Jenny: Can blogging and connecting with other students and teachers from around the world help students become better writers. Crystal: When students choose a topic and mode of writing, does their attitude about writing improve? What about quality?

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How we saw blogging in our classrooms:

Jenny: Blogging as writer’s workshop process. Crystal: Blogging as an ongoing project where students had the choice of what to create - blogs were one of many choices.

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Workshop Process:

Workshop Process:

  • 1. Developing a Vision
  • 2. Immersion
  • 3. Noticing
  • 4. Writing Under the Influence
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Developing a Vision:

It is important to set your students up for success by making them believe that their writing will be seen by important people. It’s also important to let them explore their thought process; using writer’s notebooks helps.

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Developing a Vision:

Go to the docstorming at goo.gl/XB8u4P
 
 and discuss some of the following questions:

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Developing a Vision:

What do you hope to accomplish?

What types of problems do your foresee?

Do you have enough time to get blogs set up?

How will you handle students who don’t have a device when you blog?

For a grade?

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will they blog?

What choices will they have on design or topics to write about?

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Immersion and Noticing:

Let’s go look at some student blogs!

goo.gl/CbAsFZ

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STUDENT OPTIONS:

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STUDENT OPTIONS:

Types of blogs: … so many choices! 
 We use eduBlogs!
 Themes: To let them pick 


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“School works when students have opportunities to produce quality work about issues that matter. Education works when people have opportunities to find and develop unaccessed or unknown voices and skills.” ~ Joshua Block, Edutopia

Student choice leads to student voice…

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Writing Under the Influence:

After looking at and noticing things about blogs, we began the set-up process.

  • 1. Expect problems

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Writing Under the Influence:

  • 2. Store passwords

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Writing Under the Influence:

  • 3. Get help!


EduBlogs Youtube channel: goo.gl/Cd9FAk

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Writing Under the Influence:

  • 4. Appoint experts

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Parts of a Blog

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Differences between posts and pages

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Importance of “fluff” Cool widgets! Embedding videos and projects! About pages! A ton of themes! Embed forms! Photos! Comments!

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Creative possibilities:

edublogs.eanesisd.net/jbuttler/5-minute-friday Every Friday, I do 5 Minute Friday. The students come in, get their post boxes ready, and start typing whenever they see the

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Sometimes, I’ll show my students just a picture. After

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getting ready to post, they have a certain amount of time to write a story inspired by the picture. Sometimes I will feature these or let them share. Sometimes they don't want to write to the picture, but I tell them the expectation is that they create a blog post. goo.gl/T2gM0x

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Challenges & Contests:

EduBlogs Student Blogging Challenge
 100 Word Challenge
 Scholastic Write It
 SCOPE Magazine writing contests
 Teen Ink

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Writing Ideas: 101 ideas! Random List Free Writes Projects Other content areas

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Comments & Resources!

Comments: #Comments4kids Connect w/ others through edublogs email and ask! Resources: goo.gl/ZffLl2

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Everybody gets a premium edublog account!!!! The good news….