The Best Audience is NOT you. David Theriault aka @davidtEDU

Samantha Smith

Montreal Massacre

Steve Hargadon ISTE 2012 San Diego

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SHE CAN DO ANYTHING!

I used Google Docs/Spreadsheet to collect and organize all of their urls and logins

Common Core Writing Write routinely over extended time frames for a range of purposes and

audiences

• Examine

• Convey

• Select

• Argue

• Audience

• Task

• Purpose

• Style

Use technology to produce, publish and update individual or shared writing

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Brett and Julia

College Readiness

Preparing for the SUCK...

“It’s past 11pm”“I know dad I just finished my 33rd question”

“Sorry buddy...Good Night”

“Good night...

Dad”

“So why are your blogs doing well? “

I think everyone started making their blog thinking “Oh well I guess

I’ll try to make it nice for the grade”, but eventually some of us enjoyed putting the extra effort to

make others (followers) love to come back to our blog to keep reading more of our thoughts.

Therefore, I believe the blogs that are doing well are doing well

simply because each group and each person are trying hard to be

recognized for being great at blogging, even if they do not

want to admit it. “

“I think the blogs are doing so well because we started to fall in love with blogging. It’s nice to know

that some people find your point of view interesting

and unique. Everyone nowadays

wants to be unique and try and stand out.

We can post about almost whatever we want, so we only post

things that we are passionate and care about.

Making a blog isn’t a usual thing that English classes do. Now that

we’re trying something different, we engage much more of our time

to it because it’s interesting to

us. It helps us escape from our regular book work from other

classes and show the public what we’re really like.”

I believe that students are

motivated by the curiosity of what response they will get when

writing a blog post”

We are given a lot of freedom on what we want to write about

compared to other classes. As a result, these posts/blogs are of a

higher quality since we know what to write about because it’s coming

straight from our hearts.

New This Year

The I-Don’t-Know-What-To-Write-About-So-Let-Me-Just-Put-On-a-Funny-Hat Face.

Leftovers:

How do I deal with the workflow? That’s a lot of reading…

What about other subjects?

What if you succeed and everyone starts doing it? Then you know what will happen right…

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