EduBlog Insights

I may be ranging out of control again! Something exciting happened this morning. I opened up a comment on my Wrinkles site. It was a comment from Pat Street. She is the author of THERE’S A FROG IN MY THROAT. She had noticed that we had commented on her book in class. Oh how I wish my students were still in school. What a great learning opportunity this would have been. This is one of the absolutely best parts of weblogging. You get a comment. You are anticipating reading it and lo and behold - it is something you never expected but this one little comment can add so much to your learning environment. Having it come from an author of a book you read in class and discussed on your weblog makes it really awesome.

It took me back to the day I discovered her book. I was out at J.H. House on one of the Thursdays I would be working with my Wrinkles group. I had a few moments before class and noticed a book fair was being held in the library. Her book just jumped out at me. I knew I had to have it for the students. We had a great session exploring language and her book was delightful! The illustrations were great! The timing for the book was perfect because we already were knee-deep in learning idioms and other language expressions in our class. We also had been brainstorming words for our ABC Blook on Blogging and this just added to the joy of learning. I love books like this!

Pat Street had the expression “mouse potatoes” which led to Jennifer’s illustration for our book.

Traveling down a learning path with students is really exciting to share on weblogs- the comment feature opens up new learning paths for us and allows us to really think of tremendous opportunities for learning. I’m already thinking of some good ways to use weblogs to explore language and make it come alive for our students. It can really be simple like the Idioms Are Fun! site. I can come up with lots more ideas to use weblogs so students really get to use the language in a fun way. Use it or lose it! We’re going to use it! I can’t wait to get going!

Be sure to visit Pat Street’s website and if you love language and books like I do, consider adding her book to your teaching resources. It’s terrific!

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