As an ELA teacher, I remember many years when I tried to implement the journal prompt a day. While this was good in idea, the difficulty I had was in keeping students accountable for doing their daily writing. I can remember taking 2 large boxes of notebooks home for a weekend in order to read through, respond, or grade these journals. With all of the other writing that needed to be graded, I was also lucky if I was able to do that twice a grading period. Therefore, I give you:
5 Reasons why I think blogger is going to be great this year:
5. Students can see progress and growth throughout the year
4. Their journal can double as a place for notes which we know is what would really happen to a journal notebook anyways, even when it was supposed to stay in the room cubbies.
3. I will get more than 1 word responses and real thoughts and opinions. Afterall, some students spend hours on online social communities where they are more than willing to share their lives, ideas, thoughts and opinions with an entire world through a little screen... and they enjoy doing this. I'm not going to tell them that one of their hobbies is actually journaling.
2. I will no longer have to haul boxes of notebooks home with me
1. Students can't really say they lost their blogger and the dog can't eat it.
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