Blogging could really add a little fun to my Skills Lab class. Students might enjoy the idea of using the computer to communicate with their class mates and me! I envision using it to react to literature in writing, to gather feedback on just about anything, and to give them another way of using writing! With blogging, students can react more to each other rather than just the teacher, and it can be at any time... when there's extra time in class or at home for the student who lags a little behind yet needs to write.
Specifically, I would set up a question for students and give them a week to react to it. An example might be, " In Al Capone Does My Shirts, how would you feel if you had to take a boat to school every day? Write 5 sentences exploring your feelings."
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Sally, I love your ideas here. And I think you hit on 2 key points about blogging when you said, "With blogging, students can react more to each other rather than just the teacher, and it can be at any time... when there's extra time in class or at home for the student who lags a little behind yet needs to write."
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