{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"13879177","dateCreated":"1251835848","smartDate":"Sep 1, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"curlycola","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/curlycola","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1237402829\/curlycola-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/lynmartin.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13879177"},"dateDigested":1532254502,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Authentic Audience","description":"One reason I started blogging with my class is that it gives them an authentic audience for their writing. People actually read their writing, this can be motivating and empowering for non-writers and writers.
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\nAs Room 18 moves along in their blogging journey and more and more of my students are writing I am making a request to you all:
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\nPlease lets read each others blogs and leave comments to students on their articles!
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\nBlogging does provide oppourtunities for authentic audiences but I think we may have to manufacture that to start with.
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\nSo visit Room 18's blog at
\nhttp:\/\/www.classblogmeister.com\/blog.php?blogger_id=188329<\/a>
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\nand leave a comment. Better yet, let's get children leaving comments!
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\n:) curlycola.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"13913815","body":"Yes, Nichola I agree and one way that this can be accomplished is during your class reading time. An activity for a group could be reading and commenting on other students blogs. (Either our school's blog or the blogs of other schools.) You could even extend this by visiting overseas schools.","dateCreated":"1251924713","smartDate":"Sep 2, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"lynmartin","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lynmartin","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1236812780\/lynmartin-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"13958865","body":"Yes I agree also. The reason I have have launched into this blogging is because of the exposure that our children's writing will get and for the benefits that it will have on my literacy programme. This whole world of blogging has only become of real interest to me since the Best Seminar when I attended Annemarie Hyde's workshop. She inspired me to get started and although I have only got young chidren I can see that we will still be able to get stories onto our blog without it being too much of a burden. So here goes - Room 18 please look us (the very, very new inexperienced bloggers) up and we will be checking your blog out and leaving you comments as well in the very near future.","dateCreated":"1252034805","smartDate":"Sep 3, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"pammcdowell","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/pammcdowell","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"13622777","dateCreated":"1250653436","smartDate":"Aug 18, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"lynmartin","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lynmartin","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1236812780\/lynmartin-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/lynmartin.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13622777"},"dateDigested":1532254503,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Photos on blogs","description":"Shoulfd we post photos on children on class blogs?
\nWhat do you think????","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"13920851","body":"I think that if we have permission for children to be on the blog that it is acceptable. It is beyond our control the actions of others,should our children be denied this forum for what may never happen regarding security of the images.","dateCreated":"1251941908","smartDate":"Sep 2, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"_Gin_","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/_Gin_","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1276935352\/_Gin_-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"13959519","body":"I agree that if we have parents'\/caregivers' permission, having children's pictures on blog pages can be a good idea. Children love sharing their experiences with their families and what a great way of doing it. Parents will be able to see parts of their children's school life that ordinarily they wouldn't.
\nPictures of children on blogs can be used in so many ways. They don'td just have to be pictures of children smiling at a camera. Photo sequences can be sed for ordering activities for the children to play online. Chilren making alphabet shapes with their bodies can be a fun learning tool. Children demonstrating creative tasks as 'how-to' models can be put on blogs.
\nObviously care needs to be taken so that personal information isn't added and specific information about schools doesn't need to be included. We can be careful to use just first names if we want to label photos, and don't include the school name or location.
\nChild protection rules in other countries have gone to quite an extreme. I know of one school personally where at one time, on their school photos of the children, all the heads have been covered by teddies heads. It would be sad if we felt the need to do that here I think.
\nAs a country we lag behind the rest of the OECD in our ICT provision and learning in schools. We are also not at all netsafe as a nation. How will children become netsafe if we dont' teach them? This is another literacy they need to master if they are not to come second to the rest of the world. There is the risk of a new kind of illiteracy being created.","dateCreated":"1252036423","smartDate":"Sep 3, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"dollydaydream","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dollydaydream","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}