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How teachers unite when we feel we are being attacked by bureaucrats
The tumblr #Education community in a GIF.
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One more update.
Thanks again for everyone who donated to my students. I couldn’t be more grateful and have never been more moved by the generosity...
We started off much the same as last year’s grade 3 class, with one important difference: we focused on the importance of quality commenting before we gave the students their usernames and passwords for the class blog. We spent several lessons exploring our blogging buddies blogs, learning how to write an appropriate and fair comment, and building our understanding of blogging as conversation.
Interestingly, as soon as this class got started with their collaborative blog, more and more teachers have been asking me to help them set up a blog with their class. Just this week, I helped another fourth grade teacher, Kristen, set up her class blog and was amazed at how quickly her students were able to pick up the basics. At this point, I’ve got the introduction to blogging organized into five lessons (slightly revamped from last year’s version):
This is one of those blog posts that only comes around every once in awhile. It has everything: Video support, detailed explanations of their set up (with links to previous articles that go into even more detail), and even lesson breakdowns. Even if you don’t teach at the Elementary level, there’s some outstanding information here.
Gotta save this for myself. Totally applicable. Love it when that happens!
