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Teachers Teaching Teachers #26 - Is blogging bigger than the sum of its parts?

Teachers Teaching Teachers#26
October 25, 2006
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Has writing really changed? What’s the difference — really — between writing an essay and writing a blog post? Has the use of images really changed the writing process? Digital technologies are great, but don’t we still have to teach kids how to write the way we always did? What’s the difference?

Teachers Teaching Teachers #25 -Do we need a new discipline: Stories of Student Online Conversation

Teachers Teaching Teachers
Do we need a new discipline: Stories of Student Online Conversation
October 18, 2006
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Our conversation this evening began innocently enough with Gail Desler, the technology liaison for the Area 3 Writing Project in and around Sacramento, California, describing her work over the past four years with blogging in the classroom. Last year 3 different Writing Projects and 5 schools joined together in a project called “Youth Voices: Coast to Valley.” Given that we have stolen their name, “Youth Voices” in an attempt to broaden our network of schools, we are delighted to include Gail and her teachers in the elgg at http://youthvoices.net! Last night Gail said that some of the same teachers from last year’s work would be joining the new Youth Voices. A great question that Gail has been asking is, “How can we sustain and deepen online conversations on a blog?” And part of this has to do with finding the right balance between personal blogging and common blogging around a theme or text.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #23 - Developing Student Dialogue on Blogs: Continuing the Conversation

Teachers Teaching Teachers: Developing Student Dialogue on Blogs: Continuing the Conversation #23
October 4, 2006
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It's exciting to report that students are posting on their blogs and other students have begun to respond.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #22 - Elgg Storytelling

Teachers Teaching Teachers: Elgg Storytelling #22
September 28,  2006
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We had many questions guiding our storytelling about using elggs in secondary classrooms. See Paul’s post Continuing adventures in elgg-land.

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