Story Starters Make Great Blog or Journal Prompts
Story starters are a creative writing tool that can also be used as writing prompts for journal and blog activiites. Usually starters are a sentence or two, enough to get...
Reflective Writing: Ideas for Teachers
Reflective writing can help learners in synthesizing new information, improve reading comprehension, writing performance, and self-esteem through self-examination. In online courses and traditional lecture classes that serve hundreds of students...
Blogging With Students
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano offers great suggestions on her blog for how YOU can blog with elementary students. There is a great visual (which I recreated a little differently) highlighting the...
3 Ideas for Using Blogs in the Classroom
Reflections - Use a blog for students to reflect on topics, issues, and themes from the readings in the course. Write brief summaries at the end of each unit or...
Reflective Writing with Blogs and Journals
Edith Cowan University's Center for Teaching and Learning has great Academic Tip Sheets available online. One of my favorites is, "Blogs, Journals et al." Their tip sheet: looks at how...
Why I Write
Today is the National Day on Writing. The New York Times Learning Network has been blogging about it and you can also follow the Twitter stream by using the hashtag...
Writing Across the Curriculum: Classroom Activities
Effective writing activities can help students learn any type of content better. I found a great list of resources from Ohio State University on incorporating writing into lesson plans. I...
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