SHARE Staff Meeting with Donna Yates, Manaiakalani
Simon Scott, the Deputy Principal at Hornby Primary School, reflects on his blogging journey with Manaiakalani.
What I learnt?
Simon started with a general classroom blog. After the first year, he moved into individual blogs. This was a natural transition for both him and the students, as they had become familiar and confident with the use of blogging.
Key to the transition into individual blogs, was the initial teaching of blog comment protocols with the students. Students follow three steps to write something positive, thoughtful and helpful. This strategy is outlined below.
What is the new strategy?
What are you thinking about trialing in your learning space?
Because my students do not have functioning individual blogs at this time, I will co-ordinate with one of the senior classroom teachers, so that my students can read a relevant student blog, and then use the template to make a blog comment. This could be incorporated into my Literacy programme as a learning station activity.
Relection
As well as the template, it will be important to provide some models of good comments posted on student blogs. In addition, early comments could be completed as shared writing, and then interactive writing with students that need practice before writing independently. This task will provide another authentic opportunity for short, quality pieces of writing, that will be achievable for all students in the class. It will also help to make the students more appreciative of blog comments when they start to use individual blogs for their learning journey.
Hi Joanne, I really enjoyed reading your blog entry from yesterday's DFI in Paihia and I also remember you speaking about blog commenting, especially in relation to the work of Simon Scott. I liked the idea of beginning with a class blog and then transitioning into individual blogs (we've just leaped straight into it, but that's ok). I do think, like you have mentioned, providing good models of blog comments and begin writing comments as part of shared writing task using the 3 step strategy, is a great way to scaffold the students to writing quality comments. Have heard of Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu? I'd love to try this with my students - something you could use with your students later on perhaps?
ReplyDeleteI am thinking that it would be a good idea to get involved with that next year. Many thanks for your comment and feedback.
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