by Brian | Jan 17, 2008 | Blogging
My 5th graders started 2 blog posts last week … and another this week … that because of the 5th grade writing test and other time consumers they hadn’t had time to post. So we had a bit of time yesterday and more today … and before I knew...
by Brian | Jan 13, 2008 | Blogging
Found this quote from Martin Luther (here). “The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.”...
by Brian | Dec 19, 2007 | ActivBoard, Blogging, Change, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Besides video-Skyping today with new friends in Florida we started doing the real work of making a video about how we blog. Last Friday we started brainstorming all the steps we go through and then breaking it down into scenes. Next we assigned each group a different...
by Brian | Nov 22, 2007 | Blogging
Yesterday I mentioned that my 5th graders would blog today … or at least begin the process, about our Thanksgiving Feast experience. Based on how we have done so far this year I figured that 2 to maybe 8 or 9 students might manage to write, edit, and be ready to...
by Brian | Nov 18, 2007 | Blogging
I was realizing the other day that last year my class didn’t begin to blog until the end of January. About half of my current class of 27 were in my class then so no one has blogged for a year, and half have blogged for about 2 months. Even in that short time my...
by Brian | Nov 3, 2007 | Blogging
Paul Hamilton left this comment on my last post: This week, I did a workshop for classroom teachers on using blogging in the classroom as one UDL approach for ALL learners. There were questions about the quality of posted student writing. So, here are my questions to...
