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Journaling and Writer’s Notebooks…

January 5, 2010

Journaling-What It’s All About

“I journal to understand my life as I’m living it. I use my journals as a place to put the things that spill out over the edges of my life: photo negatives, scraps of paper, poems I have heard and loved, my sorrow, and epiphanies, the true and the questions. My journals have become guideposts for my life. Maybe it’s the same way for you, and so I invite you inside my world. With this journal, you can create the book you most want to find.”

- Sabrina Ward Harrison

Writer’s Notebook-

A Writer’s Notebook gives students a place to write every day…to practice living like a writer. The purpose of a notebook is that it provides students the practice of simply writing. It’s a place for them to generate text, find ideas, and practice what they know about spelling and grammar. It’s the act of writing — the practice of generating text and building fluency– that leads writers to significance.
Aimee Buckner

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Getting started…Class 3

January 27, 2010

Create a new post on your blog. Title your post Planting Seeds for Discussion-Class 3. Please respond to the following:

  1. Write down several jewels/nuggets of wisdom about writing…what have you really taken to heart. Pull from your readings and previous class discussions. (Think about yourself as a writer as well as teaching writing).
  2. Regarding blogging in your classroom…what are your thoughts? Pull from your readings. What are you currently doing? Plans for the future?
  3. Stephen King…write down passages you wish to discuss in Writer’s Circles. Page/Paragraph #s are sufficient.
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Vocaroo and Vimeo Test

January 26, 2010

Here is a link to Vocaroo…

Vocaroo Test

And also VIMEO:

Coolest Tree Ever… from Beth Frye on Vimeo.

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Interesting Article…What do you think?

January 20, 2010
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Are We Engaging our 21st Century Learners?

January 7, 2010

What are your thoughts?