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Dropping Into New York

Posted by Adrian on Aug-23-08
David Warlick I’d just like thank David Warlick for the opportunity to Skype into his keynote in New York to discuss the benefits of blogging with students.

I hope the delegates received a little food for thought and enjoyed my Aussie accent :)

Here are the dot points I made for the guest spot. I hope they made sense as the clock approached midnight here in Oz.

Chatting with Dave in NY

- increased motivation to want to write because of ‘audience’

- biggest ‘movers’ = special needs students - exposed to models of writing - motivated to finish pieces - love the feedback via comments

- draft process = winner - peers conferencing- discussion of writing - ‘How best to say something’

- real purpose - authentic audience

- teacher models problem solving - ‘If we are going to advocate producing lifelong learners then surely we need to demonstrate being one ourselves’ - ie How do you use this new technology? - uploading   plays, podcasts, inserting pictures etc.

- Give this stuff a go - don’t be afraid to fail but fail forward.

cheers

Adrian

(Note to self - learn how to record Skypecasts hehehehe)

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