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You can also find us here: Jenny: Crystal: My personal blog: Our classroom blog: www.jennybuttler.com edublogs.eanesisd.net/cboyd Our classroom blog: Our class website: edublogs.eanesisd.net/jbuttler hcmsboyd.eanesisd.net Our class website: Twitter: hcmsbuttler.eanesisd.net @theboydroom Twitter: @mrs_buttler What about you? Are you a blogger?
Please join us here: Dotstorming: goo.gl/XB8u4P
Inquiring minds want to know:
Inquiring minds want to know: Jenny: Can blogging and connecting with other students and teachers from around the world help students become better writers.
Inquiring minds want to know: Jenny: Crystal: Can blogging and When students choose a connecting with other topic and mode of writing, students and teachers does their attitude about from around the world writing improve? What help students become about quality? better writers.
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.
Workshop Process: Workshop Process: 1. Developing a Vision 2. Immersion 3. Noticing 4. Writing Under the Influence
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.
Developing a Vision: Go to the docstorming at goo.gl/XB8u4P and discuss some of the following questions:
Developing a Vision: What types of problems do your How What do you foresee? often hope to Do you have will they accomplish? enough blog? time to get blogs set How will up? you handle students who don’t have a device when you What choices will they have on design or blog? topics to For a grade? write about?
Immersion and Noticing: Let’s go look at some student blogs! goo.gl/CbAsFZ
STUDENT OPTIONS:
STUDENT OPTIONS: Types of blogs: … so many choices! We use eduBlogs! Themes: To let them pick or not to pick…
Student choice leads to student voice… “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
Writing Under the Influence: After looking at and noticing things about blogs, we began the set-up process. 1. Expect problems
Writing Under the Influence: 2. Store passwords
Writing Under the Influence: 3. Get help! EduBlogs Youtube channel: goo.gl/Cd9FAk
Writing Under the Influence: 4. Appoint experts
Parts of a Blog
Differences between posts and pages
Importance of “fluff” Cool widgets! Embedding videos and projects! About pages! Embed forms! Comments! Photos! A ton of themes!
Creative possibilities: Every Friday, I do 5 Minute Friday. The students come in, get their post boxes ready, and start typing whenever they see the one word prompt. edublogs.eanesisd.net/jbuttler/5-minute-friday
Sometimes, I’ll show my students just a picture. After opening their post boxes and 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
Challenges & Contests: EduBlogs Student Blogging Challenge 100 Word Challenge Scholastic Write It SCOPE Magazine writing contests Teen Ink
Writing Ideas: 101 ideas! Random List Free Writes Projects Other content areas
Comments & Resources! Comments: #Comments4kids Connect w/ others through edublogs email and ask! Resources: goo.gl/ZffLl2
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