Project Wrap Up, final thoughts...
When I first approached Corey about having my students read his work, we didn't really have an efficient way to go about it. What started as an email exchange (with 32 students writing seperate emails to one author) became a highly innovative extension of my classroom all the way to a Canadian writer living in Japan.
The first thing we would like to do, is thank Corey for his participation in our blog project. He gave our English class a very unique opportunity where we could actually discuss, ask questions and sometimes even criticize a piece of literature studied in class with the actual author of that piece. His candor and interaction with the students was both highly insightful and entertaining.
As a teacher, I would like to thank my grade 10 class for their attention, effort and the pride they put into their work. You were the key element in the success of this project and you should all be very proud.
Many thanks to Mr. Craig Duplessie, a technology mentor for District 16, without his guidance and patience we would not have had the level of success that we did!
A new blog has been set up for similar projects with all students. It will showcase writing, encourage comments and be an open forum promoting literacy and discussion for the English Language Arts Classroom.
Come check it out! Read, respond and share!
www.classroomconversations.blogspot.com
posted by Robin Martin @ 11:00 PM
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I've finaly found sometime to respond to this, and I would like to say that the blog was a great idea, because it was a new exciting way of learn. Also I personaly think that this blog has brought our class closer togeather and like I said was a great new way to learn. Hope we get to do something like this again and thanks Mr.Martin for this new way of learning, rather then using the old text books and other boring education tools. Thanks!
I enjoyed the work we had the privilege of doing on this blog over the past few months of the first semester. What an honour it was to work alongside the likes of The Great Bradley O'Hearn, and Megan squared during our tandem writing. There are some great minds in this seemingly simple grade 10 class, and their talents were displayed and made known thanks to the blog.
This was a huge step forward as a way of sharing everyones work. I'm glad I got a chance to read some of the relay writes such as barnaby vs. Megan2 because they were awesome.Everything seemed to work out very well for everyone. Thanks again to everyone involved in the making/maintaining.
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