First Entry

I have previously created a blog with my students - my blog, their communal entries.  So far, at the end of each class, I choose one or two students to write in the class blog.  the entire class joins in as we chronicle the lesson of the day and what they got out of it.  That alone is a good exercise in recapping the lesson.  Putting  it in writing by them is additional good practice.  Lastly, I put it on my web page for all to see and comment on.  (not many comments so far).  The greatest challenge to teachers is getting them to sit in a room after school for an hour or so and showing them how to do it.  I want to do another blog, this time with my Great Books group of 4th graders and pose an interpretive question on our reading and have them all comment on the post.  This lesson will meet the NETS-S standard #1 creativity and innovation because students will apply existing knowledge of the book to generate new ideas.