Look at the Blogging Bunch
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| Picture by: Denna Jones |
Looking
at the Blogging Bunch’s blog one can
truly see how useful a blog can be to a classroom. The class has access to this
blog in which Mrs. Mass (the instructor) asks questions relevant to the class
and what the students are reading. [Grab your reader’s attention with a great quote from the
document or use this space to emphasize a key point. To place this text box anywhere
on the page, just drag it.]
This creates
a fun way in which students become responsible to share their thoughts and
enter the literary world. The blog is simple and easy to navigate and the
students provide insightful information about the texts that they are reading.
One
assignment question was asked for a simple prediction to the conclusion of
Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”.
Students responded with many insightful thoughts to what they thought would be the
end of the story. Most students thought that the book would end tragically and
others though that it would end like it started. Though these were predictions
the students involved in the assignment were engaged with their text and had to
provide insight to what they thought would happen next.
Other posts on this blog provide
students the ability to become engaged in the literary conversation, outside of
the classroom. A blog like this allows students to become more active in the
literary world and gain a voice that they would not regularly have if they were
to just write in the classroom or on a classroom wiki page. This is a great
tool for future teachers to model after and build a larger community of
literary conversations that we can all read, enjoy, and be a part of.
