As many implemented ideas and plans of mine go, the student blogs were not, as I approach the end of the year, vastly different. I started out with great enthusiasm but ended with a lack of focus and energy. Both students and I were early on excited. They felt a sense of ownership and for me […]
Overall I would appraise the blogging experiment of my language classes as a moderate success. Most students still seem interested in continuing to contribute to their blogs despite my best efforts to assign boring topics for posting. Each student does have a page created for their own self-chosen writing; they may write short stories, non-fiction reviews, or […]
I am interested in knowing how many of you in the class are actually looking at Google Reader to see if anyone else in our class has written anything on their blog. Leave me a comment if you have read this. Anything is fine just so that I know you were “here.”
The “workshop” approach to writing concerned as it is with ownership, time, and response has always seemed to make sense to me as a teaching “method.” Let people write more or less what they choose (or have the illusion of choosing), give them time to write, talk to them about their writing, and they will […]
