The Teacher Toolbox

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)