Week Six-Blogging Again

Light at the end of the tunnel-week 6: Camden Harbor, Camden, ME (Photo Credits Bent)

Thank you all for working through these six weeks of lessons, learning, and experimenting.  I have enjoyed your discussions, questions, and work.  All of you have done a great deal in this class, and my hope is that you will be able to use what you have created, and create new lessons with new strategies.

In week six you will be blogging on the 26th and the 28th-I look forward to the responses.

Blue skies and green grass is in our future...one more week to go!(Colebrook on the Connecticut River: Photo Credits Bent)

Final Day of Blogging Wk Three-Thank you for the experiment

Always seek a new perspective (Magnetic Island, North Queensland, Australia photo credits:Bent)

You have completed, or almost completed your blogging for week three.  I hope that you were either reunited with a tool you have used before, or you found a new tool for your "toolbox".  Thank you all for your cooperation.  Working on line is difficult at times, so I appreciate your cooperation and willingness to try something old (lit circles) in a different way.

Most of you are up and running with your lit circle blogs.  I know that work sometimes piles up, but keep plugging away.  You are now three and half weeks into class, and that is halfway there!

Sydney Harbor sunset (photo credits Bent)

I have just finished two really good books, Girl in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware and The Rising by Heather Graham  and Jon Land.  One I read (book), and the other was an audio book.  I spend so much time in my car between school and home, so I love the audio book option.  I have Axis 360 on my phone, and routinely upload audio books for the road.

Ollie wants to welcome you to Blogger

Welcome to week three-this week you will working with literature circles.  Whether you are working alone, or in a group, you will be completing all the jobs in the circle.  While working and reading in the circle, you will be blogging your jobs at least three times this week, and you are required to respond to at least two other students' blogs this week.  In addition, remember your literary term focus for the week, (list found in the week three assignment).

A final blog this week will be a reflection on the activity, (see questions in the week three assignment).  I know that literature circles on line are challenging, and to read a book in a week, and do all the jobs is also challenging, but I know you are all up for it!

Have fun, and I look forward to reading all your blogs.








If you have time, take a look at my students' blogs at

http://www.drbentsexperientialleadershipclass.blogspot.com

There you will find blogs from my 28 students (there are 30 listed but one dropped due to the NCAA, and the other could not handle the pressure so Erin's and Emma B's are blank).  Know that it is a mixed class of honors students, college prep students, and some students with IEPs.  Blogs vary according to skill and ability, but they are all progressing nicely.  I do not call them out on their mistakes, so you will see some raw unedited material. If you are willing, comment on a blog or two.  They know you will be looking, and some were quite excited to have a new set of eyes on their blogs.  All you need to do is click on any of the names on the right of my blog, and it will link to those students.  (One of their initial assignments was to link their blogs to their social media so others could see it, so these are not private pieces and you are not intruding.)

Welcome to our blogging experiment.  I am so excited to start working this because I love this tool, and my high school students and I have used it extensively for my Experiential Leadership class.