LWICT at GSC

Today Marie’s class took their novel blog posts and organised them in Inspiration.  Only a few of the students completed this task but Marie was most impressed with the work.  The students planned their essay without even being aware of it.  I am meeting with English staff on Wednesday to plan how we might use [...]

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Jeff was away today.   John and Chris covered his class.  I had the opportunity to show them blogging in
the classroom and let them read the student feedback sheets.  We also discussed the amount of
commenting that is appropriate.  John raised the point that its very important to comment on the low
achieving students.
I was amazed at how much work some of the students had done.  Some had done little to none in the first two sessions but had put in some significant effort the last two sessions.
Marie’s class is steadily working.  Some students have completed all of the of the tasks. Marie brought up some good points about student responses being personal.
We discussed that next year student blog user names might be chosen by the students and
kept confidential from other students unless  the students themselves reveal their user name.

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I am continuing to work with English staff and the year 10s. Jeff has had the students comment on each other’s blogs which is great. Jeff has found it difficult to find time to comment on student blogs. We discussed at length problems that could arise from only commenting on a few [...]

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VYEW
I have been asked to give a little presentation on blogging.  I am trying out a new piece of collaborative software called VYEW.  It describes itself as Vyew 2.0: Always-On Collaboration and Free Web Conferencing.  I learned about it via the Teach42 blog by Steve Dembo.
Steve was one of the presenters from K-12 Online Conference. [...]

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Jeff’s class came in on Friday.  We gave them minimal instructions on the Character Analysis.  That did not work too well.  I then went around to each student in the class and showed them how to copy and paste from the English Blog to theirs and update.  Students got stuck on what to write.  Perhaps [...]

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I have set up another set of blogs for the second highest English class taught by Marie.  I have also set up a bloglines account for Marie to easily check student work and comment on it.  Tomorrow I will meet with Marie to discuss how and when we will use the blogs.  They seem to be a very good tool for the English area.

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I set up blog accounts for Jeff’s Year 10 English class. We booked the class into a lab last Friday whenthey logged in to their blogs.   Initially we reviewed the blogging rules and then they started recording their movie reviews in the blogs.
Unfortunately, there were problems with some of the student accounts. It was [...]

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I have set up Jeff’s class blogs and a bloglines account for him.  We did a little lesson on how he can put resources on the English Blog sites.  Tomorrow we will try to get the Year 10 students on their blog sites and writing about Of Mice and Men.

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Both Jeff K and Marie F have expressed interest in setting up Blogs for their Year 10 classes.  This will be a priority for next term.

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Introduced my own class to Blogging today.  (I set up blogs for each of them)  We tried to insert images into the blogs but that didn’t work too well.  It could be because we were on old computers.
I intend to use this instead of journals to document student processes.

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