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Traci Gardner elearning social networking PLN writing connectivism

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  • you can easily adapt the project for any students and class.
  • Be sure that the writing prompt you choose require a personal response.
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      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      QEP seeks to connect new knowledge to what the student already knows, which is key to connective knowledge.
  • Remember that writers have more authority when they can choose a topic that they are comfortable with.
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      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      Building a sense of authority is key to good writing. Real writers always try to write from a position of relative authority. If they can't, then they ask good questions or keep quiet.
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  • Invite students to do whatever kind of writing they want to. The important thing is to write. Exactly how they write is less important.
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      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      In QEP, we seek first to encourage student writing, build participation, regardless of the kind or quality of the writing. Those issues emerge ONLY after people are writing in a group.
  • Once students do their writing, it's time to use their texts to build community.
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      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      This is a key: we must find ways to pull student ideas into the classroom. This invests the students in their own learning and connects them to the class, the content, and to each other.
  • Using Anderson's project as a model, you can jump start community building in the classroom this fall. The first days of school can be very scary. As teachers, we need to make students feel comfortable with each other as quickly as possible. Writing is the answer. Welcome students as writers, give them advice and encouragement, and watch discussions about writing blossom as students build connections and encourage one another to write. And you can do it all in about 15 minutes a day!
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      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      This is why our QEP focuses so much on writing in social networks.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Laurie Halse Anderson… invites readers to spend 15 minutes writing every day during the month. She provides writing prompts, advice, and encouragement. All readers have to do is set aside 15 uninterrupted minutes and write.
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Traci Gardner elearning social networking writing PLN connectivism rhizome education constructivism

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  • Begin by establishing reasons for students to connect.
  • In the writing classroom, personal stories can be the best way to build quick connections
  • ask students to talk about their work as writers—their best work, their pet peeves, and their biggest challenges.
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  • Tend the fledgling connections writers make with activities that talk explicitly about community.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    How do you take a group of individual, unrelated people and connect them in a supportive community quickly? … Here are some answers.
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Traci Gardner elearning social networking writing PLN rhizome connectivism Web 2.0 Education 2.0

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  • the key to a successful community is “connecting a group of people online and making them feel a part of something special.” Students aren’t going to launch into discussion just because we throw them together. We have to give them reasons to connect.
  • Give students time to bond and make connections.
  • the class needs to do things together.
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  • community challenges can also be effective.
  • Consider community participation projects as well.
  • do all you can to encourage authentic conversation. Allow students to discuss topics freely and without fear of criticism.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Online or off, getting students to talk to each other is a tricky task. … The FeverBee Primer About Successful Online Communities can help. While meant more for corporate and public community building, the lessons apply to the classroom just as well.
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Traci Gardner social networking connectivism PLN writing Education 2.0

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  • Ask students to reflect on their writing habits and process.
  • Ask students to tell you about their regular or most significant interactions with technology
  • ongoing reflection on the writing students do, a process that will keep you informed about the writers you teach.
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  • You can learn much about students' prior knowledge by asking them to tell you about what they want to do in the future.
  • asking students to share an artifact of their writing process that is significant—a favorite pen, something they have written, a diary. Anything.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    New students… bring with them literacy experiences from other classrooms, from their homes, and from their communities. The challenge is to figure out what they know and connect to that prior knowledge and experience as soon as possible. … Here are five strategies:
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