Here are notes from my Crossroads Writing Project colleagues, Lavon Jonson and Sonja Mack: “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension.”
- Background
- Bringing blogging into the traditional process of using a writers notebook
- Writing with your students encourages them to write (Graves, etc.)
- Blog Growth
- In April 2007, 70 million blogs, 90% by teenagers
- In four years the growth has been phenomenal
- Rationale for use in the classroom
- Blogging in English Class (on Teacher Tube)
- At first, it was different, but then students described how it was interesting
- Why use blogging in the classroom?
- To share items from writer’s notebook (used to share it in a circle on the floor, now we do it on blogs)
- Edublogs forums (support video)
- Blogs to check out
- Sonja’s Class
- Lavon’s Reflections
- Elementary Classroom Blog
- Blog about Movies
- HS English Blog
- Blog about blogs and education
What we’ve noticed from our students
- All students are able to contribute
- Comments are more heartfelt