Posted on July 13, 2008 by ictied
This is like going back to the discussion board not sucha great idea – no ownership of blog as a motivator
Having a classroom blog set up for students to publish their creativity is an incredible way to generate excitement and quality content. But what about when you have hundreds of students or a group of younger students that aren’t quite ready for writing their own articles? Kate from Wisconsin sent in a excellent tip for dealing with such an occasion(in her case 600+ young students). |
Managing 600 young students would be a nightmare when it came time for reading 600 articles or even setting up that many accounts(especially if they don’t have email accounts). To offset this, Kate recommends creating a teacher blog and writing the articles yourself. Students would be required to do the responding. If done correctly there could be many possibilities for teachable moments. |
- How to comment and discuss effectively
- How to participate in an online community in a safe environment
- Critical thinking about how your comments match the questions at hand
- How to respond civilly to criticism.
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Keep in mind, that article was directed towards teachers with a lot of young students (as in six hundred 7-9yo students).
While the students may have started to be old enough to write their own content, thus taking ownership, there were too many for one teacher to manage. Although they may not be getting the full experience yet, an educator could start teaching them many things about on-line citizenship that could be used later. Things such as making quality comments and on-line safety in a social environments need to be learned at an early age and reinforced.
With that in mind students could still take ownership in other ways. For example a teacher could start a story and have students develop the story collaboratively.
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