Mr. Prestney's English Blog has a lot of information on it, however, there are no student comments - hum. I wonder why? He posts assignments, extra readings, thought provoking posts, information students need - how to write a paragraph, how to annotate a poem - but no student comments. To me, why have the blog just to relay information, that can be done through a website. A blog should be interactive. I was not very impressed with this blog.
He did have one interesting assignment, which was to create a motivational speech based on the style of the St. Crispin's address in Henry V. He had several motivational speeches the students could watch - from YouTube - and he had my favorite motivational speech - the presidents speech right before battle in the movie "Independence Day". Awesome speech - if it had been a "real" speech, it would have been one of the most memorable speeches ever.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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Hey there Ms CB,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments - found them when looking at my referring links. The blog (and my teaching career!) is pretty new, and whilst I would love for my kids to post, they often don't feel the inclination. I have tried a couple of assignments which involve them posting work in the comments - here, for example http://is.gd/pRTV - but we actually have a VLE in school which is much more useful in terms of taking in work and keeping track of it, so I tend to use that - I incorporate the blog into that system as well.
You're right, though - I would love them to interact more, leave comments and so on. The best I can do at the moment is put up enough interesting stuff there to try and keep them coming back to it. If anyone has any pointers on increasing interactivity, I'd love to hear them.
All the best,
Ben