ELT: Write-Ons: Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life? How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs? What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week? Explore the Discovery Blogging Rules websites looking for …
ELT: Write-Ons: Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life? How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs? What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week? Explore the Discovery Blogging Rules websites looking for …
ELT: Write-Ons: Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life? How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs? What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week? Explore the Discovery Blogging Rules websites looking for …
Early last week I was asked by Yoz Grahame (a lead developer of Ning.com) to answer a few questions about how I was using web 2.0 tools (and specifically Ning) in my classroom to be used in a post for the Ning Blog. I was quite surprised and a little …
A former male 8th grade student of mine has been e-mailing me consistently ever since he figured out that I really love to read my students writing. He has been sending me a few stories a month for about six months now. I read these really crazy pieces and say …
Cores 1-3: Introduce the blog safety resources that we will be using to create our own Discovery Blogging Rules. Go over a few of the minor points of Posting to your blog with pictures. Explore the Weekly Authentic ideas and begin writing your first one. If you haven’t set up …
Cores 1-4: Introduce the ELT reading strategies assessments (not shown here because we use them from year to year) and talk about the importance of extending advanced students and engaging struggling students in the “action” of reading. (Show CSAP Reading Growth 05-06). Introduce and model “The Good Parts” as a …
Core 1-2: Share-On: Share your Authentic prompts with 2-3 others and select the best one or two to be included in the online resource for student generated authentic prompts. Discuss the great prompts as a class. With a partner and a laptop, sign-up for your learner blogs using my demonstration …
Cores 1-4: I was at a G/T Langauge Arts meeting for most of the day, so here are my sub plans. Core 3: Discuss any great reading that happened in the library today. Share your Authentic prompts with 2-3 others and select the best one or two to be included …
My questions: How can we use our language so that our students become more metacognitive and reflective? Others’ questions: Is peer editing actually useful for students or only for teachers? How would our teaching practice change if we were to consider all of our students as gifted? Iquiry works for …