Working out the Wrinkles!
Last week my Wrinkles group were blogging following these steps:
- read news stories
- wrote about what they read
- published their news item to the home page and are hoping for responses
- will read more next week
I posted more about this here but time is a major problem in this group as I only have them for two hours. I thought about this all this past week and I think I came up with a possible solution today. We spent the first part of the class commenting back to those who had made comments to them. Then they learned how to join and post comments on each other’s sites. We worked on our Idioms site and then students took the time to browse through the student news sites to find articles of interest to them. They made links to the news sites on their navigation bar on their weblogs. Then they printed the news articles and are taking them home to read. They will come in next class with a rough draft of what they wish to post. I’m working at having them include the 5 W’s and then close with their thoughts about the article. Then they will pose a though-provoking question and hope someone out there will read and respond. I do think I will probably have to set up the audience - have had that in the back of my mind for some time. Today was a good day and we are working out the wrinkles!
They enjoyed today. We felt less rushed. We’re working this out.
January 15th, 2004 at 9:36 pm
I really want to get a grade 5 class involved in reading and responding to your Wrinkles blog. I am going to work on a SuperThinker post that will link to your Wrinkles site. one or two generic student logins so two computers can be logged in to the blogs. I’ll introduce students to the post next week and work with the teacher on facilitating the reading and posting.
January 16th, 2004 at 11:41 am
Great! I look forward to it!