Ran into this site through my referers and I liked what I saw, especially the tagline “one redheaded girl’s journey into the world of public education” and the following post:
I am supposed to be writing a paper about the results of my “study” using blogs to teach descriptive writing. I designed and taught the unit and now I have mountains of student essays and comments on their blogs and student feedback from the end of the unit. Deep inside my brain, I even have a semi-theory about how and why things worked.
But I can’t find decent theory about using blogs in stuffy academic journals. Plenty of teachers out there use blogs in the classroom. Have any of them published theory/results/other academic junk? Probably. So, where are you???
So far, the only articles I’ve found deal with using those crazy “word processors” and new-fangled, and potentially immoral, “electronic mail.”
I do not consider 1987 relevant to my study.
Sounds like the type of teacher I would have liked. I wonder if she ever wrote up her study. (And I can’t wait to tell Miss Higgins that she’s been blogrolled!)
Wow. Thank you for checking out my blog. You’re such a rockstar!
No really, you made my day.
I am still working on my paper. When I’m done, I’ll try and figure out how to put it up on the web and link to it on my blog. I presented my little study today to my MAT class and all were very interested. Another student and I talk about blogs so much, we have everybody in the program blog-happy.