(Almost) all our content from 2006 to 2017 is archived and available online under a Creative Commons license. Please read this post from June 2018 for more background and updates about our conference and current status.
2008 2008 - Prove It!

Prove It “We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging Mentors”

Kathy Cassidy, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Blog:http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

Bio: Kathy Cassidy is a grade one teacher at Westmount School in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada who is very interested in the ways in which technology can support and augment the learning in her primary classroom.
Bio Page:https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Kathy+Cassidy

Patrick Lewis, Regina, SK
Blog:http://primarypreoccupation.wordpress.com

Bio:Patrick Lewis is an associate professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Regina, SK. He is a storyteller-teacher-researcher interested in good stories.
Bio Page:https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Patrick+Lewis

Presentation Title:” We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging Mentors”
Description: In the winter of 2008, Patrick Lewis’s university class of pre-service teachers were blogging mentors for Kathy Cassidy’s grade one students. This presentation talks about that collaboration and the results of the research that was conducted about the effect this mentorship had on the students’ writing.

Presentation
Link on dotsub

About transcribing/translating this video

Download
Original (18:04 Run Time; mov, 104 MB)
iPod Video (18:04 Run Time; m4v, 100 MB)
Audio only (18:04 Run Time; mp3, 12.8 MB)

Essential Questions


View Full Screen VoiceThread

Access Help Desk
[tags]k12online08pi08, k12online08[/tags]

comments

  1. Mathew

    Very cool. Sounds like a high tech version of what we did in kindergarten as dialogue journals. We saw even with paper and pencil that kindergardeners would write more when they would receive a response to their writing from an adult.

    In the way I was trained to do this, instead of correcting students’ errors we would model correct spelling/punctuation in our responses. So if a student was writing about Disneyland and spelled it wrong we would be sure to include the word Disneyland in our response.

    Thank you for your insights and explanations on your process.

  2. Pingback: Thing 13: On-Line Conference | Tech Jain

  3. kim thomas

    There is one teacher in our district that has utilized blogs in his classroom and he is getting the link to this presentation as soon as I get done writing this comment. This will serve as a validation for what he is doing. Now the challenge is to get more teachers to take that first, risky step towards trying this in their classrooms.

    My question….do you think having a text to speech reader would help save time? Kathy commented on how long it took her to read the blogs to her students and I thought this might prove beneficial. Of course you loose the discussion that takes place with the student but that could still be done, just on a more limited basis. Would like to hear thoughts from others….

    Thanks,

    Kim T.
    Phoenix, AZ

  4. Pingback: Blogging With Our Big Buddies « Primary Preoccupation

  5. Pingback: Thing13 | My 23 Things

  6. Pingback: Blogging Buddies :D « Krystal’s Blog

  7. Pingback: Thing 13 - 21st Century Conference | online course

  8. kathy

    This sounds like a great idea. I would like to try this with the book buddy program we already have in place at our school. I have already seen how much both age groups benefit with buddies and the writing would just be a further extension.

  9. Pingback: Thing 13 = A 21st Century Conference | Susan

  10. Pingback: Thing 13: Attend a 21st Century Conference | Patty's Web 2.0 Blog

  11. Pingback: Thing 13: The K12 Online Conference | friday yoga

  12. Pingback: September 26 K12Online Conference LAN Party « Kim’s Ventures in Educational Technology

  13. Pingback: 6 Word Stories About 21st Century Learning and The Power Law #21c6w » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  14. Pingback: Adventures in Skype-land « Primary Preoccupation

  15. Pingback: Thing 13: The 21st Century in my PJs!! | The Teacher's Aid

  16. Pingback: Thing 13- An exciting Session From the K-12 Online Conference | The Learning Lab

  17. Pingback: Thing 7b- Reading my Reader about Writing | The Learning Lab

  18. Pingback: Thing #13: Twenty First Century Conference | It's all Greek to me!

  19. Pingback: Lessons Learned Teaching EdTech to PreService Education Students (Fall 2010) « Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  20. Pingback: The Benefits of Blogging (Assignment Three) | Technology 4 Teachers: Spring 2011

  21. Pingback: Information highway | Technology 4 Teachers: Spring 2011

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *