Lee Ann Spillane's Blog – February 2008 Archive (2)

Using a blog with my service learning students has been a challenge. I want to say failure, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel just yet. Besides, failure is something to celebrate (like in Meet the Robinsons)--failure means there are lessons to be learned!



What's gone wrong? Here's the short list (warning to fellow English teachers, these will not be parallel or grammatically correct):



Students don't understand the difference between a blog post and a… Continue

It's February and I missed posting here in January. I've lived the busy teacher's life since returning from winter break. It's been a whirlwind.



I can't access this blog from school and perhaps that's why I'm writing less, but I do want to continue to note and journal about the technologies I'm trying and how they are affecting student engagement and my own practice. So, what's changed? What's new this month? In terms of my practice, I started a blog and a wiki for my service learning… Continue