Blogging
For your blog entries, I want you to do more than simply list what you did each day. Your blogs are places intended for you to engage in deep, meaningful, high-level reflection. In your writing, work toward creation and evaluation--begin thinking ahead and evaluate your own work. Address what you’ve learned, what new questions or interests you have, your successes and milestones, and even your failures or problems or obstacles and how you overcame them (or plan to).
Consider questions like: When something got hard, what did you do to help yourself? If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about yourself? How much did you know about the subject before we started? How can you use what you learned today outside of school? What did you learn about yourself today? How would you explain this topic to someone else? How can you apply what you've learned to another subject or class? What did you find most engaging about today's lesson or your work?
Responding to Others:
In addition to writing your own blog, each week you must write a thoughtful and fully developed response to the blogs of at least TWO other classmates. The links to their websites/blogs can be found below. You are also welcome to check out the work being done by other students in other classes by visiting the the class pages, found in the navigational menu at the top of the page.
For your blog entries, I want you to do more than simply list what you did each day. Your blogs are places intended for you to engage in deep, meaningful, high-level reflection. In your writing, work toward creation and evaluation--begin thinking ahead and evaluate your own work. Address what you’ve learned, what new questions or interests you have, your successes and milestones, and even your failures or problems or obstacles and how you overcame them (or plan to).
Consider questions like: When something got hard, what did you do to help yourself? If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about yourself? How much did you know about the subject before we started? How can you use what you learned today outside of school? What did you learn about yourself today? How would you explain this topic to someone else? How can you apply what you've learned to another subject or class? What did you find most engaging about today's lesson or your work?
Responding to Others:
In addition to writing your own blog, each week you must write a thoughtful and fully developed response to the blogs of at least TWO other classmates. The links to their websites/blogs can be found below. You are also welcome to check out the work being done by other students in other classes by visiting the the class pages, found in the navigational menu at the top of the page.
Links to Classmates' Websites
