#sol15 Bloggers
So excited. Students ask to blog. Yesterday, they bounded into the room, only to see an entry task.
“Aren’t we s’pose to ‘slice’?”
“Yeah! We’re s’pose to do our challenge.”
Sigh.
“You’re right. Let’s get started,” I replied.
Today, the same thing, but now they were excited to know we have blogging friends in Japan. One of my #clmooc #etmooc colleagues and friends, Bart Miller, shared his students’ Kidblog. My fifth students were amazed at the videos and food and ideas on their posts; they read posts together, watched videos together, and then wrote comments.
The best part: the posts from our new friends gave my students ideas about what to write.
Two too good days — real days with real readers and writers. Not test prep, but life prep.
Image Source: Student Drawing
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Sheri Edwards View All
Geeky Gramma ~~
Retired Middle School Language Arts Teacher ~~
Writer and Thinker
This is fabulous! I have just begun blogging in my classroom…I am amazed at its power!
Yes. With all the requirements and “skills” we must teach, we feel pressured into forgetting that, to improve, readers must read, and writers must write
I have chills from your last line. truth!!! (and so amazing the connections your bloggers are making!)
I know; I don’t like that we don’t have a choice — that we must spend too much time on “created” lessons instead of authentic learning.
This would be a good thing to share with the school board!
Thank you.
The connections made give reasons to write and when we write we want to make it good, right? Love the joy from you and the kids.
Yes, we’re still getting “good ideas,” and starting to learn — “Oh. I need a period there.” 🙂
This is fantastic! Keep it up! Real days, real life, real writers, real thinkers–AWESOME!
Love what you said: “Real days, real life, real writers, real thinkers” It’s so true! Authentic writing is more powerful that manipulated lessons.