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in many cases a good ol bulletin or discussion board is better suited 4 what tchrs want. understand pedagogical affordances 4 blogs #edchat
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@jorech @tomwhitby It also opens the reader to non-linear links and makes the intertextual nature of literacy apparent and available #edchat
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@MaryAnnReilly @fliegs @raffelsol Yes blog is a great way to sho how transmedia can transecend normal boundaries of time and space #edchat
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@mr_avery It doesn't have to be, but also doesn't mean it can't be. If assessment is tool to show areas where growth is needed. #edchat
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@weisburghm No problem often debate wether we should have a devils advocate during #edchat. Lot of choir preaching
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@Lauren_Learning @hadleyjf More than just assessing w/comments. Comments require own set of social practices that have 2 b modeled. #edchat
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@weisburghm I think they are often used as shallow question answer formats. Tchrs don't use blogs as a genre 4 writing #edchat
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@kconners09 @MaryAnnReilly At same time we know practices of sucsful bloggers. Should we not share these? Have stdnts reach 4 em #edchat
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@MaryAnnReilly Agree thats why I like a holistic approach with indvidual writng goals (<4) that come from std/tchr confrences #edchat
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@MaryAnnReilly @kconners09 Agree on indvl goals. Too often rubrics have too many criterion 2 be useful 2 stdns. pick specfic targets #edchat
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@MaryAnnReilly No but if you want to focus on proficiencies of what good bloggers do you can develop rubrics and look for growth #edchat
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@MeganLearner #edchat yeah at our #ncte session we wanted to highlight critera folks could use in rubrics. diff for comment and posting
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@MeganLearner @jennamcjenna Jenna's wonderful blogger but not doing #edchat just wanted to giver her credit "reading w/ mouse in hand)
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RT @tomwhitby: With so many blogs to choose from today it should be fairly easy to select good and bad models for exploration#Edchat
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recent talk on blogging being dead is good for the genre, news aggregators that stack and allow for comments diff then edublogs #edchat
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@MeganLearner #edchat Blogging similarities to journaling but there is also an element of what @jennamcjenna calls "reading w mouse in hand"
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Here is some links to information from an #ncte session I did awhile back http://bit.ly/i8lIQ9 #edchat @MeganLearner
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RT @mpowers3: RT @ericjuli: Learning to offer meaningful, constructive feedback on others posts is difficult and worthwhile skill to lea ...
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Too many classrooom blogs are used as poor substitute for class website. Blogging as a specific genre needs to be taught #edchat
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Too many classrooom blogs are used as poor substitute for class website. Blogging as a specific genre needs to be taught #educhat
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