“Our Blog: a place to enhance written discourse and media citizenship among students.” What does that mean? How do we explain this to our students? In our writing classroom, we review lessons from these sites: Net Smartz On Guard Online I Keep Safe I also added from Theresa’s Daily Question 2 Response, the following sites [...]
My students say it is time for them to start blogging. That means our class blog must be updated. What should I include? Whats should you include as you begin the journey? These three blogs show excellent samples of what to include: Dare to Care Denise Krebs I learned much from the netiquette of Denise [...]
Would you like to build your readership AND your professional learning network (PLN)? Have you thought of joining a network related to your field? Since I teach, I have several networks through which I connect to others. You can share your blog posts with them there also. Twitter: Many have already written about Twitter’s 140 [...]
One of my students’ favorite activities is power writing. Here’s the basics: Power Writing for Fluency View more presentations from Sheri Edwards. After each power writing timed session, I ask students “Please stand if you have written ten or more words… 20 or more words…” etc. They love showing how much they can write. Power [...]
How do I use images in my blog? Attention: Hook the reader Connect: Connect the ideas with a visual Explain: Clarify blog ideas with an image Share: Demonstrate with ideas, events, examples Humor: Create Metaphors for the muse Conclude: Summarize with a graphic or picture Although this is my class blog, I have other blogs [...]
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