As with all projects, we hit a few hurdles–absent team members, problems uploading videos, problems getting our crappy mics to record quality narration–but my students have finished their productions of their analyses of chapter six of The Awakening. They’re eager for the world to view their presentations and enter the discussion. If you have time, please check out their work. I’d love to hear feedback from both adults and students.
I’m including a one-page hand-out of ideas for commenting. Feel free to share it with your students. If you missed the previous posts explaining this project, you might want to check them out here and here.
I know this is a horribly busy time of the year with semester exams and the holidays bearing down on us. I’ll say thanks in advance to those of you who can spare a moment to enter the conversation, to push the thinking of my students and, in essence, model the power of technology to connect learners and voices from around the world.
6 Comments
December 10, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I’m so excited about the projects your students produced. They look great. I don’t know if my students will have a chance to respond before winter break–we’re pretty slammed–but we’ll try to get to it soon after returning next year. I didn’t want you to think that we’d forgotten!
December 11, 2008 at 8:59 am
@Jen: Wonderful. I’ll tell my students. They’ll be thrilled! Have a great Christmas break.
January 4, 2009 at 11:56 am
Hi Lisa,
I am focusing this year (through a grant) on digital writing with 4th graders. I was just about to create a handout on how to insert hyperlinks in a comment…then I found your post and wonderful handout. Hope it’s ok if I link to it and share it with the teachers in my project.
And if you’re wondering how I found your blog…I started by Googling “hyperlinked writing,” which led to a podcast and post by Wes Fryer, which led to a link on a post by BudtheTeacher, which included a comment by you. Sort of amazing the way Web 2.0 makes it possible for a high school AP English teacher to mentor a K12 tech integration specialist looking for 4th-grade appropriate resources, no?!
January 4, 2009 at 2:38 pm
@Gail: The web does indeed make the world a small place! Feel free to use in anyway you’d like. I’d love to hear more about the “digital writing” you’re tackling with 4th graders. I teach workshops in the summer and am always looking for examples to share with other teachers.
January 4, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Thanks, Lisa. I’ve added your blog to my Google Reader and look forward to following your teaching year.
January 4, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Oh, just corrected the link to my blog.