Week #4 New Ideas

From the following readings I have identified 3 key ideas which teachers may find useful:

Article 1

Pericles, K. (2008). Happily blogging @ Belmore South. SCAN, 27(2), 4-6http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/

• A negotiated set of guidelines displayed in classroom. This enables high quality work on the blog through the display of explicit instruction. This then allows the students to check their work against a detailed criteria.
  
• Photographic montages are useful to display student's progress over a given period of time.
• The idea of a relationship building with an international school provides not only cross cultural exchanges but valuable resources in terms of information sharing.

Article 2

Barone, D., & Wright, T. E. (2008). Literacy instruction with digital and media technologies. The Reading Teacher, 62(4), 292-302

• The development of a class website allows students to check in each morning to look at the day's schedule and any class updates and news

• Using a single document which may be focussed around vocabulary for example) could draw on a number of resources such as music, drawing and word processing.

• Developing a blog which focuses on a text, that all students are reading allows students to contribute and comment on each others comments and thoughts.