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Classroom Weblog Model #745

September 16, 2004 By Will Richardson

(via Michael Feldstein) Well, maybe not quite 745, but I am finding more and more of these out there. And this one by Cole Campalese (and others) at Penn State plays it pretty close to the Barbara Ganley model of teacher engagement. I don’t think the homepage will eventually be taken over by his students, but I do like the way he uses his posts to synthesize the discussion from earlier posts, frame the discussion for that particular post, and link/quote relevant content from other sites. This is a teacher modeling what he wants from his students. And, he offers up a rubric to assess their posts as well. Note that the instuctors do some commenting on the commenting too, prodding…encouraging…pointing.

Teachers who use blogs need to blog. They need to model it and show how the critical reading, thinking and writing skills that real blogging demands can push their own thinking and their own learning. Blogging isn’t just a tool to enhance student learning, you know…
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