About this edublog project

  • Pre-service teachers used blogs to discuss award-winning Newbery books using reading roles creativiely adapted from Harvey Daniel's 'Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student-centered Classroom'. Contact Anne Davis at adavis@gsu.edu if you have questions.


    Note

    These blogs were moved from Manila blogs to TypePad blogs. The author shows up on each post as Anne Davis as a result of the transfer. The original posts were made by students and the instructors Lynne Jordan & Anne Davis. The initials on the post title signify who did the actual blogging of the post.

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I Think We're On to Something! LQJ

I have spent a  while today looking at all postings and comments as a follow up to my meeting with Anne Davis on Friday.  Because Weblogging is something I've wanted to do for such a long time, I'm feeling on top of the world when I see these postings and comments.  I see how the project has evolved and grown and changed, and I realize this is how learning and teaching should be.  For example, I'm looking for idioms and using idioms like never before ("on top of the world").  We added a department called Idiom Searcher because a student suggested it.  I've learned a great deal from my students in this project, as well as from Anne Davis, of course, that would have not been possible had we not undertaken this project. 


My goal is to have my students realize some of the possibilities of weblogging in their own classrooms.  I'm working now on ideas to make this type project manageable and worthwhile for classroom teachers.  I can certainly speak from my own experience with this first attempt at weblogging --my eyes have been opened in ways I didn't anticipate.  It has, and continues to be, worth the time and effort!