Comments on: A Belated Answer http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2007/11/12/a-belated-answer/ Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clay Burell http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2007/11/12/a-belated-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1237 Clay Burell Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:37:21 +0000 http://budtheteacher.com/blog/?p=570#comment-1237 (Out of curiosity, does Typepad have a "subscribe to comments" plugin or "email replies" type thingy? Would be nice!) (Out of curiosity, does Typepad have a “subscribe to comments” plugin or “email replies” type thingy? Would be nice!)

]]> By: Clay Burell http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2007/11/12/a-belated-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1236 Clay Burell Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:35:10 +0000 http://budtheteacher.com/blog/?p=570#comment-1236 Hi Bud, A good question from Paul. My own experience this year has been interesting to me, so maybe it will be to others as well. I subscribe to all my students' blogs in one folder on Bloglines. They publish autonomously, but in a couple of instances, they showed bad judgment. One student published something of an emotional breakdown that I didn't think the world should have access to; the other simply used the "s-bomb" when a milder "crap," for example, would've served just fine. These cases make WordPress MU wonderful for me. I simply went into their dashboards (I'm the administrator of the entire site), and changed the meltdown post to "private" - only viewable by the student, until I have time to talk to her - and the S-bomb to that gentler "crap." I also use Diigo highlights and stickynotes, shared only with our class Diigo group, on the permalink page of each post to leave more "teacher-y" comments, while using the public "comment" box to have the more conversational, authentic dialogs proper to real blogs. So far, I find this nice and manageable. My challenges are getting them to write more frequently and connectively. How are you doing on those fronts? Techniques? Successes? Hi Bud,
A good question from Paul. My own experience this year has been interesting to me, so maybe it will be to others as well.

I subscribe to all my students’ blogs in one folder on Bloglines. They publish autonomously, but in a couple of instances, they showed bad judgment. One student published something of an emotional breakdown that I didn’t think the world should have access to; the other simply used the “s-bomb” when a milder “crap,” for example, would’ve served just fine.

These cases make WordPress MU wonderful for me. I simply went into their dashboards (I’m the administrator of the entire site), and changed the meltdown post to “private” – only viewable by the student, until I have time to talk to her – and the S-bomb to that gentler “crap.”

I also use Diigo highlights and stickynotes, shared only with our class Diigo group, on the permalink page of each post to leave more “teacher-y” comments, while using the public “comment” box to have the more conversational, authentic dialogs proper to real blogs.

So far, I find this nice and manageable.

My challenges are getting them to write more frequently and connectively. How are you doing on those fronts? Techniques? Successes?

]]> By: Paul Hamilton http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2007/11/12/a-belated-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1235 Paul Hamilton Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:48:40 +0000 http://budtheteacher.com/blog/?p=570#comment-1235 Thanks Bud. Helpful observations are never too late! Thanks for the input. I especially concur with your line stating, "The trick, when editing, is to help the writer to become a better writer - and not to mask their student voice with your own teacher voice." It seems to me that this business of approving and editing is more art than science. That's probably true of almost everything we attempt as educators. --Paul Thanks Bud. Helpful observations are never too late! Thanks for the input. I especially concur with your line stating, “The trick, when editing, is to help the writer to become a better writer – and not to mask their student voice with your own teacher voice.” It seems to me that this business of approving and editing is more art than science. That’s probably true of almost everything we attempt as educators. –Paul

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