This is a first for me--I've avoided the blogger's realm for far too long, mainly because I have no idea what to do with it. First and foremost, I'd like to figure out how to use a blog for my English classes this coming school year. However, since I'm new at this, I'm sure that my students will have had more experience with blogging than I have.
QUESTION: How can I incorporate a blog into an English class? Let me know what ideas you might have, and if you can, give me some instructions on how to set it up!
Hi Chris, I can certainly sympathize with your concern about blogging. My first blog (www.susiknits.blogspot.com) was started to chronicle my knitting projects and a niece's quilt that I made for her while she was sick. Once I'd done that, I didn't go back!
ReplyDeleteBut I do like the posting of a question as a thought-prompt. Won't that be a reasonable approach for an English class? Assign it as homework? Visit the blog, read the prompt, write a comment - however brief - as a way of contributing to the group's discussion. Follow up discussion in class could be interesting. Just a thought.
-- Susan Andrews
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteI might incorporate a blog to have students reflect on literature. Just like adults have book talks a blog might be an extension for your students to reflect on a characters, motivies, or the overall plot of a story.
I'm thinking the same thing myself....require student blogs, make them follow my blog as well as those of their classmates, and have them comment on each others' entries!
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