-Teachers should provide informal writing opportunities on blogs, such as prompts for journals or opinion based writing on certain topics. Teachers should allow students freedom in their style, but vary topics and author purpose (persuasive, opinion, etc.) to help improve writing and allow students practice in developing their voice.
-For Poetry: In Collaborative literacy: Blogs and internet projects Boling, Castek, Zawilinski, Barton and Nierlich outlined a poetry project where students chose a photograph and wrote a poem or short story about the photograph that was unique to their country or state and posted it on their blogs. Students also recorded audio of themselves reading the poem to understand meter and rhythm. Then the class connected their blogs to a classroom in the Phillipines where students from that school could make comments on their writing. Students in the Phillipines also developed their own blogs, which the students in the
-Jigsaw assignments- Students may select and read novels jigsaw style, and then other students in their group have constant and permanent access to each other’s findings and research.
-Teachers can have students write blog entries from the perspective of different characters in literature. Require students to research their character online using different sources, then post comments on their peers “character” blogs, still writing from the perspectives of their own character (this requires high level thinking).
-Have students write research on different topics online using video, images and audio files.
Here is a link to different educational blogs that teachers have used in their classroom (and enabled their students to create also) as well as providing different activities to use in blogging (for English, go to HS Course Blog on the right side): http://educational.blogs.com/edbloggerpraxis/high_school_blog/index.html
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I wish the link would have worked as a link, instead of needing to be copied and pasted into a new tab.
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