I have a lot of ideas about what I would like to do in the classroom, but I need to organize the steps I need to take. As John Hedron says, " Before embarking into the blogosphere with students, carefully consider what the exercise of blogging will accomplish..." I need to set a goal and not just shoot from the hip. Krista said in class that is a bad idea to just say "you will blog and figure it out as you go." I agree that this is a bad idea, so I need to figure out the best way to manage an activity. Once students are connected to a classroom wiki or blog I can begin the project. I imagine that with ESL students it will take some time getting them set up with the technology.
The attached document was taken from the English 10 course. I liked this and I would use it in the first week of class as an activity to help students get used to using the blog. I would ask the student to choose one of the sentences and write 250 words on that topic. I would encourage students to be creative and also ask a question to their classmates so they can get a comment on their own blog. I would treat this as a warm up activity.
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I still need to capture the 12.5 rules to put on my blog!
Instead of picking one of the 12.5 rules, why not have them DO one of the 12.5 rules? Then, write about what they did?
And, I'm where you are right now with all this technology: figuring out WHAT to use in class, HOW to use it, WHEN to use it ... but most importantly, WHY to use it. What purpose or point will it serve? What will it teach? What will they learn, other than the new technology?
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