Examples, you say?

Sarasota, Florida teacher, Mr. Chase, posted a long and very interesting post (So Much) in his Mr. Chase’s Blog yesterday about the first few days of school with students who seem to have ubiquitous access to computers. It was a joy to read of such enthusiasm during the first days of a new school year and a generation of children moving one more year toward their future. It’s a great read.
At the end, he says…

One of my frustrations when listening to the podcasts and presentations of folks like David Warlick and Will Richardson is that I want examples, I want lessons and projects, I want to see what’s going on with the people who have been there.

Coincidentally, I spent a little time, while laid over in the Minneapolis airport yesterday, creating a new blog. I just can’t believe I’m doing this to myself. It’s called Best Practices in Blogging. A little grandiose for nothing more than some suggestions for making use of weblogs in the classroom. I’m planning, at this point, to try to post a suggestion a day, each day concentrating on one subject area.

Logo-1I don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep that up, but I agree with Mr. Chase. I recognize that these high minded ideas are just entertainment unless they result in some impact on the classroom the next day. So yesterday’s blog is about health, since I got dinged by member of my audience in South Dakota the other day. She pointed out that I mentioned, in my presentation, all subject areas except for Health & PE. Ding!
I’m also tagging the entries so that they should show up in the Support Education wiki page on Best Practices. If you write a blog entry about instructional applications for weblogs, tag it with “bloggingbestpractice”.

By the way, I’m using eLGG for this blog, just to try to acquaint myself more with this environment.

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3 thoughts on “Examples, you say?”

  1. I have to say I am glad to read this. I have been reading many blogs but most are about the theory, the idea, discussing what schools should be, could be. But many do not support, or give practical advice on how to make the change. I know we are all part of the \

  2. This may not be best practice yet BUT it certainly within the realm of best opportunity. In a nutshell our local paper ( I live in Los Angeles) has just run a front page article inviting the public to become reporters submitting articles on line for their local sections.The full article is linked on my blog. http://dare-to-dream–classroom-technology.blogspot.com/
    Not only is this an incredible opportunity but has far reaching implications.Let me know what you think.
    Barbara

  3. It\\\’s very interesting to look at how your conversations about blogging best practices interconnect with Will Richardson, Miguel Guhlin, Brian Crosby and many others. You all are on the same train of thought. I\\\’ve been thinking about blogging best practice from a professional development standpoint. Many of the blogs I\\\’ve read this summer have been role models for me as I look at the thinking skills employed in the writing and I can trace may of them back to the research based strategies described in Classroom Instruction That Works. Perhaps we need to also be thinking about the instructional strategies that will be employed by teachers as they use blogs. Those strategies considered along with strong curriculum goals can be used as a basis for creating those blogging best practices.

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