Blogging in Elementary: Starting the Conversation Early Alice Mercer (alice_mercer@yahoo.com) CUE 2009 Thursday 3/5/2009 Session 2236 Creative Commons License, Images from Microsoft clip art

Alice Mercer (alice_mercer@yahoo.com)

CUE 2009 Thursday 3/5/2009

Session 2236

Objectives Why blog with students (even in elementary)? What does it look like? How to structure a class blog or student blogs? How to introduce it to students?

Why blog with students (even in elementary)?

What does it look like?

How to structure a class blog or student blogs?

How to introduce it to students?

Why Blog with students?

Journal writing with no feedback

Lets add analog interactivity…

Journal writing with teacher feedback

Lets take it to the Web…

Journal writing on a class blog

Journal writing on an open blog

Journal writing on an open blog

… for an audience It’s writing like they will be doing as adults…

How do we learn?

Relationships Social interactions Lev Vygotsky Zone of proximal development You cross the point between ignorance of a concept and knowledge with someone helping you How do we learn? The Zone Knowledge

Relationships

Social interactions

Lev Vygotsky

Zone of proximal development

You cross the point between ignorance of a concept and knowledge with someone helping you

What is the “goal”?

The development of blogging in students: building conversations in the classroom

Different ways to structure blogging for elementary classrooms: their advantages and disadvantages

Class blogs or Individual student blogs

Closed (private) or open (public) blogs

Writing: Drafts or final versions, what should they post?

How to structure the introduction of blogging

Manners, please Mind Your Manners from Ann Douglas’s photostream on flickr.

Start with analog Post-it Note Explosion from Matski’s photostream on flickr.

Other sessions… Saturday March 7 at 12 - 1 p.m. Honk if you Love Blogging: Free Online Tools to Enhance Elementary Blogs Deborah Ferguson, Eva Wagner 2062 Supersize your blog to include multimedia such as podcasts, embedded video, slideshows, and voice recognition. Get a license to create meaningful, and authentic learning using Gcast, Utube, Picasa, and Jott. New, Beginning, Intermediate, Experienced, Pre K - 3 LA, TL Madera Wyndham Hotel

Saturday March 7 at 12 - 1 p.m. Honk if you Love Blogging: Free Online Tools to Enhance Elementary Blogs Deborah Ferguson, Eva Wagner 2062 Supersize your blog to include multimedia such as podcasts, embedded video, slideshows, and voice recognition. Get a license to create meaningful, and authentic learning using Gcast, Utube, Picasa, and Jott.

New, Beginning, Intermediate, Experienced, Pre K - 3 LA, TL Madera Wyndham Hotel