01.27.08
Posted in Introductions at 9:42 pm by edla7550
To find your way to your peers’ blogs click on the URLS posted under “Spring 2008 Student Blogs” on the right-hand side bar on this blog.
Again just to remind you that your Reflection Weblog Entry #1 is modified slightly and reads now as follows:
a) Compose your own blog entry #1 but DO NOT post it on your blog yet. Bring the printout of this reflection to class for discussion;
b) Hold off with composing peer responses to weblog entry #1.
Please make sure to post your ABOUT PAGE introductions on YOUR OWN BLOG, if you have NOT done so yet.
I wish you all happy blogging and fruitful conversations!
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01.07.08
Posted in Introductions, welcome at 7:05 pm by edla7550
As you already know, this semester each of you will set up a blog linked to this course blog on which you will post your writing. More specifically, on a weekly basis, you will compose a reflection weblog entry (a blog post) to share with larger audiences. In this post, you should develop your critical questions, explore tensions, and offer solutions to problems/issues under discussion in the course readings. You will also comment briefly on peers’ reflections. I hope that you will all find thinking and writing on the blog a refreshing and empowering learning experience. For more details about this assignment, please see our course syllabus.
Your first task is to post an introduction entry in the “About” page, which will give you the opportunity to introduce yourselves as educators to others in this course and beyond. Tell us something about your expectations from this course. You may think of this post as a mini “mission” statement or contract. Let us begin the journey.
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09.08.06
Posted in Introductions at 11:06 pm by edla7550
My initial review of the introduction posts by members of our course revealed multiple educational and professional goals. They range from searching for answers to puzzling questions about theory and research, through seeking advice and strategies for practice, to expressing desires to model to our students ways of learning, engaging with literature, and composing. Some of you would like to explore the potential of blogging for classroom teaching through your personal journeys on the blogs that you have created for this course. All these goals are excellent. I also believe that they will be highly appreciated by your students.
I am proud of the unique educational backgrounds that you bring with you to this course; just to name but a few: in-depth knowledge of literature, art, music, philosophy, literary theory, and teaching. I am convinced that all these experiences will only enhance our discussions and explorations of theory and pedagogy of English instruction in EDLA 7550.
I invite you to become co-constructors of theory and pedagogy in this course and beyond, and I, in my role as a more capable other, will do my best to support you in this process by providing examples and questions for thoughtful explorations and modeling decision-making that will come for you naturally with experience.
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08.29.06
Posted in Introductions at 1:57 pm by edla7550
Anne Davis, a nationally recognized pioneer in modeling the use of modern technologies for classroom adoption—and our guest speaker in class last week, has recently published a special welcome note for all members of our EDLA course. Here is an excerpt from what she wrote to you all about the possibilities that are waiting for you in the blogsphere community of learners:
…you have a wonderful opportunity here to create a vibrant example of learning for your future students and your future colleagues. You can create a community of learning unlike any you have had before. It is in your hands. I know you will rise to the occasion! It is an opportunity that not many students at the university level get.
We consider ourselves fortunate to have had her in our class. She was so helpful in assisting us in setting up our individual blogs. Thank you, Anne.
Visit her blog for a complete welcome post and perhaps leave her a comment/thank- you note of your own.
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08.25.06
Posted in Introductions at 5:36 pm by edla7550
This first weblog entry gives you an opportunity to introduce yourselves as educators to others in this course and beyond. Tell us something about your expectations from this course. You may think of this post as a mini “mission” statement or contract.
Happy writing.
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08.24.06
Posted in Introductions at 9:07 pm by edla7550
Congratulations, you’ve logged in successfully. This weblog is a home page for EDLA 7550. It will serve as a clearinghouse for our dialogue in the blogosphere. This is where I will post highlights from interesting reads and offer response to individual or aggregate weblog postings, based on excerpts from your latest posts or others’ comments to individual weblog entries. I may also choose to suggest prompts for select weblog entries, so please make sure to check the course home weblog page at least once a day.
Each of you will have your own weblog linked to this course weblog on which you will post your writing. This is where you will share and celebrate with others your discoveries and treasures as learners, researchers, and teachers in this course, and as commentators on student blogs, beyond this course. If readers click the link to your weblog on this blog, they will find their way to your blog. You will post comments to students on their individual blogs. I will provide the links to these students’ blogs in the near future.
You will be able to read more about individual posts and respond to them on everyone’s own weblog, using the Comment feature on individual weblogs. Please make sure to give your blog a name that speaks to you as an educator and that relates in some fashion to the goals set for this course. Similarly, please remember to give each new post a heading or title, so that it can be associated easily with our weekly discussion topics.
Let us begin our journeys into the blogsphere that celebrates collaborative learning experiences, reflection, and sharing of expertise and resources!
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