My district has schoolweb which is ables teachers to create websites. In my site, I am able to to have forums where students chat with eachother. I haven't tried it yet, but I plan to hole forum chats with the honors classes. We'll see how it goes. I'm excited to see how it works.
Shannon On 7/4/07, Lisa Branon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > Lisa Branon > Reading/ Language Arts Teacher > > > --------------------------------- > Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're > surfing. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
