How to grow a blog: focused study session #1

A great example of blogging with students is Konrad Glogowski’s Blog of Proximal Development, which shares a variety of tips for blogging with students such as How to Grow a Blog and Towards Reflective BlogTalk. Glogowski contends that blogs are essentially a sustained conversation between communities of thinkers and writers: When we talk about blogging, most of us focus [...]

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2009 SI Video Reflections

Hi All, Just Jess again with some suggestions for your video reflections tomorrow and Thursday. I know some of you may still be struggling with what to say, and I thought some sentence starters might lead you in the right direction… Suggested sentence starters: Before the Summer Institute I… For the first time, I am… [...]

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Glogster

Education | Glogster http://www.glogster.com/education This has interesting possibilities for use with our wiki and artifact/etc. writing projects. I’m thinking multimodal/multigenre more and more as I think about my contribution for this summer.

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Link to artifacts posted on Forsyth SI blog

Here’s the direct link to the artifacts our participants uploaded to the blog last summer.  http://kmhs.typepad.com/forsythsi/artifacts/ Jess, Mary Ann is the Story Corps expert.  I’ve never used it but it is a cool site with unlimited potential for classroom application. I’ve already started generating a list of questions participants could address in their inquiry. (Maybe they can [...]

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