Blooming Webloggers
My weblog mission this year is to empower some “blooming webloggers”. Blooming webloggers keep in tune with Bloom’s Taxonomy as they write.
Look at this great group:
Aren’t they a good-looking group? We can’t go wrong. OK here’s the plan that is up-and-going, as of today. Yesterday I began working on a WebQuest, using a template at TeacherWeb.com They’re free there and while you can’t custom design them, they’re quick and you can put together an activity and publish quickly. I have worked with them over the past few years and they are a good company. They work with educators.
My thought was to springboard off of the webquest, Blooming Bloggers, as the students learn to blog. The webquest is a work in progress. I haven’t finished all of it. I will be tweaking it as I go. Today I went over the introduction, task, and got into part 1 & 2 of the process. The discussion was good, students were engaged and it was fun! Hillary, the new ITS at House was in the class with me. She is blogging away at EduBlog Quest and showing all the symptoms of an up-and-coming blogger.
Now I like step 3 and I think I got the steps down fairly well for these elementary students. Their homework today was to write about what we did in class. They will be out all next week so I won’t meet back for two weeks. The school has changed to an extended calendar this year.
Now, I don’t have anything in the evaluation part yet. I would really appreciate input from our weblogging community on this piece. I did take a writing sample first thing when they came in. I can use that. You can see those on my post on The Write Weblog. I could also put together a rubric that is specific to the blogging process I have outlined. I’m still in the think tank mode with this piece of the WebQuest. I may add some other components. The kids will help with that as I proceed.
PLEASE give input on the WebQuest and how I am trying to go with this, this year. This could be a good model for teachers because the students really will be blogging and they’ll be blogging about what they’re learning! Also, maybe this would be helpful for teachers who are trying to figure out just what blogging is. Who knows? Anyway, I’m charged and it’s a great feeling to be back with the kids once again!
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