The morning began as I had expected-a healthy dose of options to use in our classroom. What's been most interesting is noticing how enthusiastically we have taken on these possibilities. I hope that our students are able to feel our interest and use that to fuel their digital writing.
Twitter seems to offer the most opportunity for 7th grade English and 8th science. Ideas keep jumping into my mind about the chances to engage with students in more authentic publication that will allow them to communicate in a community of writers- something I have been building over the past two years. Perhaps students can create digital writing pieces to capture a theme and blend that theme through several different modes much like the film from MAPS by Troy Hicks. Capturing their writing piece through a blog, they could then promote it through Twitter and other means of communication.
Along with this, I invision students working to back channel their learning to collaborate and study. In this way, maybe we could explore the learning process and reflect back on how they learned? Using this platform, students would work together in preparation for upcoming exams.
As we break for lunch, I'm eager to get into the lesson planning time scheduled for this afternoon.
#PWP2T
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