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By: 2010: A Recap | A Patchwork Life

2010: A Recap | A Patchwork Life — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:56:14 +0000

[...] some major blizzards. By March, I was recognizing the need for some re-centering, blogging about student blogging.This was a slow blogging time for me–I wonder if it was a NaBloPoMo hangover, or just a busy [...]

By: Dialectical Notebooks: Who and When « A Patchwork Life

Dialectical Notebooks: Who and When « A Patchwork Life — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:10:34 +0000

[...] students completed color imagery journal with our study of The Great Gatsby, and then the response log for Hamlet. My juniors complained from time to time that the Gatsby journals were a lot of work, but it was [...]

By: Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:06:33 +0000

Ted–good luck finding a work-around for the blog issue. I definitely enjoy doing these types of activities much more now that I’ve gotten into the blogging habit, and I always love ways to reduce the paper-shuffling!

By: Ted Leach

Ted Leach — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:20:49 +0000

Having used this lesson from the SSF series, I love the assignment, but have difficulty with the paper-shuffling. Blogs work great for this sort of thing. I’d like to try using Moodle for this, but we’re still running an older version of Moodle w/o a good blogging module. Oh well.

By: Blogging Catcher in the Rye « A Patchwork Life: writing, teaching, learning more each day

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:52:32 +0000

[...] a different type of entry each day, so that they would have to stretch themselves. As with my Hamlet blogs, I created student blogs that are hosted on my teacher website and set to only be viewable by the [...]

By: jackie

jackie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:54:19 +0000

Also, you should definitely read Hamlet! It’s such a wonderful, rich play.

By: jackie

jackie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:53:59 +0000

Well, I can’t take total credit for the questions–my SSF book has been a treasure trove–but I think you’re right in that students need interesting prompts that guide and surprise them, not just a question like “What did you think of this chapter?” That can fly in discussion, where you can expand and stimulate, but in writing, I think the prompts have to be carefully shaped. The first two questions especially have engendered unexpected responses for both me and the student, which is great! I’m working on how to do this for all my texts, and I have an entry coming soon about the blogs my students are doing for “Catcher in the Rye” as well.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:20:09 +0000

You ask great questions….99% of the time the responses to exercises like these are visibly overflowing with boredom because the questions being asked are so lacking in creativity…your questions made me want to pick up Hamlet and answer them!