"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Wednesday, July 04, 2007 at 7:45 PM -0500 wrote: >I have had some real success with my students having a deeper >conversation in their book clubs when we blog. I have had a lot of >trouble maintaining one with the district's filter. It is so very >frustrating. My kids are excited to talk with each other using the >computer. Has anyone else used it? When the blogs were down we just >passed a paper for conversation. For some reason this written form of >discussing literature is so much better than the oral ones in class. I >certainly know the importance of talk, but the inherent teen shyness >sometimes keeps them from truly opening up with their thoughts. Writing >their conversations seems to bring out the real heart felt thinking I am >so dearly looking for in response to literature. Any ideas on blogging >and filters?
Hi! I don't know how filters would affect this, but I do know that Keith Mack offers all LiteracyWorkshop members the option of purchasing blogs through either the "Blogger" or the "Gold" membership, both of which are described in more detail at http://www.literacyworkshop.org/memberships.htm Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
