Last night I attended a discussion session hosted by Charles Nelson from Kean University on the topic of Blogging in the Writing Classroom. It is surprising/fascinating to me the quantity of blogging sessions there are at this years TESOL conference.
Prof. Nelson suggested that blogging can be a useful tool in teaching writing to students from K-12 all the way through graduate school. He assigns his writing students 2 blog entries per week. The topic can be anything as long as they write at least one paragraph. I believe his reason for this is to train his students to start writing automatically.
My main concern for K-12 blogging is online predators. This morning, I conducted a little research on my own and found out that blog groups can be closed to the public. In other words, we could set up a blog group where only those invited can view or contribute to a blog. Also, teachers can set themselves up as administrators so that they can monitor the appropriateness of posting.
I wonder how/if we could implement blogging at Tubman. How could we incorporate blogging with Teachers Institute?
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Kevin,
These are very interesting ideas. And, very timely, as I was shocked to hear our DC Scores students discussing customization of their MYSpace pages last week; yikes! I am doing more research, and have set up: http://TubmanYoungWriters.blogspot.com
This afternoon, I will attend "Literacy in the Age of Blogs" with Kate Roberts at Columbia University, Teachers College. I thought the DC Scores writers might be a good place to start since they are apparently Internet-savvy, and follow a writing curriculum after school. Kudos to you, Mr. Brown for beginning this discussion.
Cory
Wow - great!
I think the DC Scores Writing Project is an excellent place to start (and it hadn't crossed my mind before).
Cory, please come back and post your findings from the workshop and updates on this project.
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