http://scottsfloyd.com/2010/02/05/my-thoughts-on-literacy-and-publishing-to-the-web/ my ideas, thoughts, experiences, and lessons learned in education Thu, 06 May 2010 14:43:55 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://scottsfloyd.com/2010/02/05/my-thoughts-on-literacy-and-publishing-to-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-342 David Phillips Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:44:42 +0000 http://scottsfloyd.com/2010/02/05/my-thoughts-on-literacy-and-publishing-to-the-web/#comment-342 Here's an idea for editing blog posts. If you have access to an intranet with a little storage space, how about setting up a folder for these blog posts. Students could draft them in Word, if they have it available, save them to the folder, have a peer editor open it from the folder, comment using "track changes" and then save it back to the folder. Then the original poster could choose to accept or reject the changes. Of course, you could do much the same editing using the shared option on Google Docs and the intranet would not be required. After going through the editing procedure, then students could copy their post from Word or Docs and then paste it into the blog. This would be an extra step in the posting process, but it would bring in an important collaborative opportunity for your class. Here’s an idea for editing blog posts. If you have access to an intranet with a little storage space, how about setting up a folder for these blog posts. Students could draft them in Word, if they have it available, save them to the folder, have a peer editor open it from the folder, comment using “track changes” and then save it back to the folder. Then the original poster could choose to accept or reject the changes.
Of course, you could do much the same editing using the shared option on Google Docs and the intranet would not be required.
After going through the editing procedure, then students could copy their post from Word or Docs and then paste it into the blog. This would be an extra step in the posting process, but it would bring in an important collaborative opportunity for your class.

]]> http://scottsfloyd.com/2010/02/05/my-thoughts-on-literacy-and-publishing-to-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-341 woscholar Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:48:06 +0000 http://scottsfloyd.com/2010/02/05/my-thoughts-on-literacy-and-publishing-to-the-web/#comment-341 Great point, Beth. It is disheartening for many kids to publish anything due to the red ink all over it when they finish. Spelling is important, but publishing and polishing after peers have reviewed it is as well. If you never let them publish, they may never see the need to proof their work with a critical audience. Great point, Beth. It is disheartening for many kids to publish anything due to the red ink all over it when they finish. Spelling is important, but publishing and polishing after peers have reviewed it is as well. If you never let them publish, they may never see the need to proof their work with a critical audience.

]]> http://scottsfloyd.com/2010/02/05/my-thoughts-on-literacy-and-publishing-to-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Beth Poss Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:35:52 +0000 http://scottsfloyd.com/2010/02/05/my-thoughts-on-literacy-and-publishing-to-the-web/#comment-339 My question back is, what is this teacher's goals for the blogging activity? Is it to find out what her students thoughts are on the novels they are reading and to encourage conversation about these books? If so, then I would say to not worry about spelling and conventions, unless it makes the post unreadable. Otherwise she will just discourage the struggling students from writing at all. Remind kids of the spell check tools that are available within the tool she is using and leave it at that. My own daughter, who is a great writer, but a lousy speller, told me once, "I can't write and spell at the same time." Leave the editing for final drafts. My question back is, what is this teacher’s goals for the blogging activity? Is it to find out what her students thoughts are on the novels they are reading and to encourage conversation about these books? If so, then I would say to not worry about spelling and conventions, unless it makes the post unreadable. Otherwise she will just discourage the struggling students from writing at all. Remind kids of the spell check tools that are available within the tool she is using and leave it at that. My own daughter, who is a great writer, but a lousy speller, told me once, “I can’t write and spell at the same time.” Leave the editing for final drafts.

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