What to do next?
September 4, 2007
I am going to throw Rick´s doubt back to the group. What do you think you should be doing with your students? What will get them to have fun, react and produce?
Remember, we are testing this idea; nobody knows what should be done next. I know Renato is trying something more open, not necessarily related to the topics we are discussing in class. This approach will probably work best for him. For me, I am going to work on free, but guided activities, also not directly related to the class material. But not everybody has the same perspective.
I would say that Rick should work on writing prompts with his students. This is something he is very good at, but will it work here in the blog project. I don´t know and we will only know if we try.
Don´t forget that we have to ask our students what they would like to do. Last Friday we had a discussion at the meeting about this. We decided that a brainstorming session in class would be a great idea. Try this on the whiteboard and have someone take a picture with their cell phone and post it to the blog. Then post it here to our blog for everyone to see!!!
I think we are going in the right direction and just to have students writing is something very positive.
More to come later….
September 10, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Hi,
I agree with Cory. We have to try different formats and activities and see what works best. And, again, it will work differently with different teachers and different groups. I suppose Rick wants to work with the writings, so the activities have to be more guided and the teacher’s role will be to work on vocabulary and structure. The challenge is how to address these issues on the blog. How are you going to give sts feedback? Using editing tools? Posting your feedback on the blog? Printing and making comments? Waiting for other sts’ feedback? I suppose you can always discuss it w/ the sts and see how they feel about it.