Consider your blogging this year
Posted on May 1st, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy
Please answer as many or as few of these questions as you need to propel you to a bit of reflection. Write it out as a blog article and then for those of you who are willing, record it as a podcast. Keep it under a minute, and I’ll use excerpts from your podcasts for a presentation I am doing this summer to teach teachers how to blog in the classroom.
- Describe what we’ve done with blogs this year, as you understand it.
- Explain what has been your favorite subject to blog about (be specific and then explain why)
- What would have made the other things we blogged about more interesting?
- Explain what blogging is.
- Explain what you learned by blogging this year
- about technology
- about literature
- about yourself as a student and writer
- What have you done well on the blogs?
- Describe your comfort with blogging (or lack of it).
- Describe how writing for your blog has been different than writing you’ve done in other English classes.
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