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Sue Waters - "this page has been set up so you can check out different types of class blogs to get ideas for your own class blog... to make connections with classes in other countries. Last updated on March 3, 2010"

Blog post about using reading comprehension strategies to reinforce strategy and teach good blogging skills

positive features of blogging

Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing » Blog Archive » Notes from "Educational Blogging: What, Where, Why and How"

Great post about the value of student blogging.

Writing their own blog posts can open up a whole new world for your students. Most likely it will be the first time that the readers of their work will be someone other than their teacher and possibly their parent.

A short " The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging" list the places I've found most helpful, and I'd certainly like to solicit other suggestions for additions to this list.

do you want to learn some blogging secrets from me? Chris Brogan's intriguing question

using a slide application to take notes during the research process.

Excellent list of posts that are transformative.

embedding Google Books code into a blog or site

A new conundrum for researchers. How do you cite a book on a Kindle? This APA blog has some suggestions for APA style users.

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The problem with 40 students is that there is no way to read (much less comment upon) every post if every student is posting every week. I am toying then with a rotation model (inspired by Randy Bass), in which students are divided into five groups of eight students, cycling through these five roles: * Role 1 - Students are "first readers," posting initial questions and insights about the reading to the class blog by Monday morning * Role 2 - Students are "respondents," building upon, disagreeing with, or clarifying the first readers' posts by class time on Tuesday * Role 3 - Students are "synthesizers," mediating and synthesizing the dialogue between first readers and respondents by Thursday * Role 4 - Students are responsible for the week's class notes (see next section on Wikis) * Role 5 - Students have this week "off" in terms of blogging and the wiki I like the rotation model because each group of students is reading for and reacting to something different. The shifting positionality affords them greater traction, offers greater variety, and guarantees a dialogue without comments from myself.

An interesting blog post about the formal research paper taught to incoming college freshmen. The blogger makes the assertion that this process and mode of writing are not effective or even necessary. The comments that follow the post provoke deeper thought. 

Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."

Blog post about mind-mapping your ideas - use color, curved lines, one word per line, and CAPS

Great blog post by Tricia Buck about the impact of deciding to go paperless on her teaching of English

tech help blog for English teachers

Blog post about a challenge to read books from around the world to learn more about our world