It's finally here! UIWP is hosting this week of the CLMOOC! Again, if you're not familiar with the CLMOOC, you should totally check it out - and you should pay very special attention this week as our Writing Project site hosts a series of conversations and events designed around the topic of remediation (not in the behavioral sense, but rather in the sense of writing and making across different forms of media). You can see our opening newsletter HERE or you can just watch our remediated version of it in the YouTube video below.
We are incredibly excited and honored to be participating in the CLMOOC in this capacity and we are looking forward to what everybody has to contribute! If you haven't jumped in yet, you can follow the CLMOOC blog at Educator Innovator or be part of the conversation on Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter.
After the morning writing session, Mindy led a great teaching demo on using blogs in the classroom. Mindy teaches 5th grade, which may not be the most obvious space for blogs or social networks, but as her demo suggests, there are many applicable skills that students of all ages can learn through public writing. Mindy asked us to reflect on some very important questions:
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Thanks to Mindy for leading us in some great thinking about social technology in the writing classroom.
After our lunch break participants had the opportunity to share their finished inquiry maps that they made through Thing Link. You can check out everyone's inquiry map by finding their portfolio on our participants page.
Our final activity of the day may have been the most important. We began discussing ways that we can move the activities that we have done during the summer institute into our classrooms. Here are some seeds of wisdom that came out of the conversation.
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