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that teacher comments are more important than those posted by the student’s classmates. In fact, my doctoral resear
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ch suggests that peer comments can have a stronger impact on confidence, engagement, and development of writing skills than comments left by the teacher.
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Seen side by side, they complement and reinforce each other.
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tudents must also have opportunities to analyze who they are as bloggers and writers. They must have opportunities to look critically at their own work and see how they fit into the class blogosphere.
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This handout gives students an opportunity to pick their single best blog entry and comment on how writing that entry contributed to their growth as a thinker or writer. In other words, I want them to think about the perceived ripple effect that this one specific entry - one specific topic and their subsequent engagement with that topic - had on them as individuals. How did it expand their understanding of the topic? What exactly did they learn? Was there a reaction from the class blogosphere?
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Once the students get in the habit of looking critically at their own work, I also ask that they look around the class blogosphere and pick one or two entries that had impacted them in some way. Once again, I ask for a reflective response. I ask the students to describe the ripple effect that the entry or entries had on them as individuals.
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provides a valuable mechanism to engage students in reflective thinking about their work and the work of their peers. It also provides an opportunity to continue to redefine my presence in the classroom.
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Youenn LeborgneWhen we talk about blogging, most of us focus on writing. We tend to ignore that a class blogging community provides teachers with a very valuable opportunity to use informal instructional conversations to engage our students as thinkers and writers.
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In fact, my doctoral research suggests that peer comments can have a stronger impact on confidence, engagement, and development of writing skills than comments left by the teacher.
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The Ripple Effect Sheet is designed to encourage students to become aware of the class blogosphere, of other writers, of entries that define the environment in which they write, and of their own contributions to that environment.
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As you can see, this handout provides a perfect opportunity to start a conversation with a student about his or her specific entry.
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But the process did not end there. Having looked closely at his work and discussed some of its aspects with the teacher, Terry used the other part of the Ripple Effect sheet to assess the strengths and weaknesses of his work
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This is a very important realization for a thirteen-year-old student
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Learning from his own classmates that his work, while interesting and fun to read, would become even stronger if Terry took the time to proofread and revise is much more effective as a learning tool than constant reminders from the teacher.
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Once the students get in the habit of looking critically at their own work, I also ask that they look around the class blogosphere and pick one or two entries that had impacted them in some way. Once again, I ask for a reflective response.
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It gives them an opportunity to look carefully at what is happening on other blogs in the class community and then reflect on their own reactions.
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Once Terry understands how much Anna can contribute to his understanding of the novel and current international events, he will be less likely to dismiss his class blogosphere as just a group of kids writing for school.
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The point here is that when we talk about blogging, most of us focus on writing. We tend to ignore the fact that a class blogging community provides teachers with a very valuable opportunity to use informal instructional conversations to engage our students as thinkers and writers.
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Tod BakerThe Ripple Effect Sheet is designed to encourage students to become aware of the class blogosphere, of other writers, of entries that define the environment in which they write, and of their own contributions to that environment.
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Michael TolerA blog about Blogging, teaching and learning
nitle_writing blog blogs community e-learning education blogging reflection nitle-tdn students teaching for:jsader
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Paul Beaufaitfrom blog of proximal development » Blog Archive »
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Rudy Garnsa class blogging community provides teachers with a very valuable opportunity to use informal instructional conversations to engage our students as thinkers and writers.
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William FerriterAn AMAZING Konrad G post on the ways that reflective thinking can be promoted in student bloggers that includes a handout that he uses to promote this thinking within his kids. Spot on Stuff!
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susan van GelderKonrad Glogowski - reflects on deepening the blogging experience
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