C4TP#3

The possibilities of student blogging

The idea of using quad-blogging allows four classrooms to become better writers and commenters with an authentic audience. I like the concept of using quad-blogging. Students take turns being a writer and commenter every week is great technique using digital citizenship. Students improve their own writing skills and become curators at the same time.  Students develop ways to blog by using creative expression, transforming their writing, and making connections and learn to write for a purpose. This blog is something I will use in my classroom to asses my students writing abilities in the classroom. 

The teacher has a responsibility of making that connection from their own personal networking and own blogs, so students can use a platform to help them.  Students can make a reflection on the first time writing a blog to now and enjoy interacting with other students. I agree that commenting is a way to start a conversation with the person you want to blog with. This allows the blogger to provide feedback from the comments received and make edits and revise to develop a quality blog post. When commenting you should make sure to make a connection. I learned how to write a good quality through practicing and drafting my work. The blogging platform allows learning and reflecting experiences.  The experiences of receiving feedback from an authentic audience  gives students engagement and a platform to start blogging.

Documenting for Learning

July 1, 2014, Ms. Silvia Tolisano wrote how documenting is for learning. Documenting can be used as professional development for teachers and students can become digital citizens using the images they find. I have a different perspective on documenting now.   I agree taking videos, photos, screen captures are ways of extending my learning.  It has helped me blog better as a writer by having a image to make a visible picture to express the way I remember the content.  I really enjoy the thoughts and ideas you share in your blogs.  Students are show ownership, creative and deep thinking. I have developed some new techniques as writing should be fun. I strongly feel documenting allows the reader and writer to a story.  Storytelling is a great way to be creative in describing narrative works.  Students and teachers can be flexible into the creating a visible picture.  I didn't know capturing photos, a video, and notes can bring a collaboration ideas.  

C4Ta#3

Sparking Learning

These students are provided modern tools to provide the opportunity to learn new skills. Educators are changing learning to the 21 st Century by teaching methods and improving educational awareness using digital medium.They can interact with specific for the ethnic learning. The children get "good connections for children have been working on device in the cloud doing todays learning for tomorrows job. This is terrific for the New Zealand students to receive an opportunity to learn in their communities and foster academics across the world. It is wonderful for partners to provide devices for these children in communities to develop, communicate, and adapt to using modern technology .

Blog Post #9

What can Teachers and Students teach us about Project Learning?

Seven Essentials to Project Base Learning

Teachers can teach project learning effectively using the seven elements of Project Base Learning. Here is the list of seven elements of project learning:a need to know, a driving question, student voice and choice, 21 Century Skills, inquiry and innovation, and feedback and revision, and a publicly presented product.  It's important to assign a student a project with a meaningful purpose. A need to know is an entry event , a live discussion, field trip experience, and a guest speaker. Students project learning should include open and ended questions, links, problem solving and compelling language.  Teachers should allow students to create and present their project. "Project Base Learning is more voice than choice is better".  Teachers can limit the menu options a students can pick from design their own personal projects which fits their personality.  I like project base learning because it reflects the real injury by driving questions, leading to research resources and discovery of answers which teachers can generate a list of new questions.  Students can predict, make inferences, and draw conclusions on the research.  Teachers provide explicit teaching using project base learning.  Teachers give students many opportunities to be innovative to assess themselves. Students value the creativity of learning, engaging, and connecting with entry events. When students meet with mentors or other classmates feedback can emphasize creating better quality of work.  Students can foster making a projects meaningful.

Project Based Learning For Teachers by Tony Vincent
There are common standards teachers use to impact and improve students learning to meet understanding in the application of knowledge, finding evidence, exploring inquiry, problem solving, and making project base learning personal.

Tony Vincent says project base learning must have a purpose. Students should be able to express their person project to an authentic audience.  Students and teachers should use a driving question to gain understanding of the project.  Teachers and students can use a rubric to assess testing ideas.  Students should obtain group activities, braining storming, and refining the end product. I liked how Tony used Albert Einstein message : I never teach pupils".  I believe students are going as good as the tools they are given to discovery opportunities to identify using cognitive and critical thinking skills.  Students can explore and examine the project base learning strategies as they work in collaborative groups to find meaning of an assignment.   

Ten Sites Supporting Digital Classroom Collaboration in Project Based Learning
The digital classroom provides students and teachers a way to connect, engage, and discover virtual learning. Teachers must teach students the ethical laws of using the internet.  Students must be familiar with good digital citizenship and responsible using online services. Teachers must guide students to interact and network while in immerse project base learning. I visited many websites offered and found www.linoit.com very helpful in the classroom.  There are websites students and teachers can explore for collaboration and communication like www.todaysmeet.com, www.wallwisher.com(padlet), and other tools like google docs.

What Motivates Students?
I can motivate students by listening to their expectations in life after school.   Some ways of I  can motivate my students is on behavior and academics is having accountability chart, giving stickers, "thinking suckers", extra incentives to buy something from a school store, compliment students work to provide students what a great job their doing in the classroom.   Classroom management and behavior charts in place give  student self esteem to stay in boundaries of getting classwork, free time, and motivates self confidence they can be anyone they want.

Project #12 SMARTboard Part A using the SMARTboard Tools

As I learned how to use the Smartboard tools I encountered a mistake using object animation hide and reveal. I will demonstrate correctly how to use object animation in this second video. I learned many tips using the Smartboard tutorials.

Project #14 Base Learning Lesson Plan # 2

Project Base Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan #2 is created by Chellyiss Nettles for Project #14 addresses students applying math knowledge to classify numbers including: even and odd , place value, time, and words. This lesson plan is intended for 2nd Grade.  It covers a period of 5 days.  The daily lessons will be a combination of paired groups and individual activities.  The students will engage in groups for about 30 to 60 minutes to discuss and work out word solving problems. The students will be graded on a rubric that contains all the levels of understanding of problem solving addition equations, adding and subtracting, odd and even. The 2nd grade students will obtain and understand the ALCOS standards 1,2,3, and 6. Click on each tab below to preview this week's lesson.

OverviewCalendarChecklistSecond Common Core Math Rubric

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Sources:

1. Alex
2. Buck Institute Education

Project #9 Video Commentary Book (Daughtry)

Why Do I Have To Learn History?

I learn history because it teaches where I come from and how generations were started. I get a chance to learn the mistakes that we made as a culture in previous years that maybe we didn't pay a lot of attention on when that particular event took place. History teaches better character for my life. When I am learning history it is amazing to think about who and what my ancestors did to contribute to history. History warns you never to be too cautious, because it often does repeat it self. History comes alive for me when I'm reading things about people like Niccolo Machiavelli, King Charles V, and Leonardo De Vinci. Reading about things of those aspects brings history out for me because, I can get a real visualization  from reading.

Blog Post #8

What Can We Learn about Teaching from Randy Pausch?

Teaching is enabling a virtual world lead by a childhood dream. Teaching is project base learning and fun. There are no textbooks in his curriculum. Students use video gaming and computer programming to take a live adventure. Teachers and students receive feedback and learn from their virtual experiences. Teachers should enable the dreams of others and achieve dreams is more than his childhood dreams.

I have learned that is important to self reflect and to receive feedback.   It's important to let the student demonstrate their dreams into life changes. Set goals and push hard to drive challenges that will eventually pay off in the end. Always acknowledge who you are and don't be a "fakehead"!

Blog Post #7

What Are 21st Century Learning and Communication Tools?

Evernote:

Students use Evernote as a digital notebook.Evernote is available on tablets, iPhones, iPads, and android devices. Evernote has sections in a notebook for students to organize their notes. Evernote app allows students to capture screen shots, audio a record note.

iTunes U:

Students can enroll in courses and download materials for the class usingWIFI. Teachers create a class roll and check the roster using iTune U.
Teachers can manage, create, and share assignments.
It saves time and money. Teachers do not have to copy any materials because it's paperless.
iTunes U is supported by Pc's and MAC devices.
iTune U is available 24/7 for students.  Students can manage and engage in a different learning experience.
Resources are available 24 hours to the students.
iTune U is easy  to set up, user friendly to parent and students. Teacher can archive lessons and assignments.
Dropbox:
Dropbox allows a user to add content without the ability to modify remove the content once it has been added.
Dropbox is personal storage. Dropbox stores photos, videos, and documents.  Students and teachers save files to personal devices and dropbox and share ideas.

My students will use Evernote to write down and save notes, add still pictures, and assist students labeling subjects to organize their notes. Students will create an iMovie, using still pictures, blog, and podcast to explore a virtual experience. I use dropbox all the time.  Students will learn to save all documents, create folders, share and collaborate ideas with peers. 

Project #13 Based Learning Lesson Plan

Project #13 Project Based Learning Lesson Plan

Project Based Learning

Members in our group (Daughtry) are: Corey Waldon, Erica Jeter, Chellyiss Nettles, and Melissa Neese. Our lesson addresses the following in math: multiplication and division using whole numbers and also solving word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities. This lesson is intended for students in the third grade. This lesson will last a week with a day to review and a test the following Monday.

List Documents and then add pic of skittles.

Third Grade Math Rubric (Operations and Algebraic Thinking)

Representing and solving problems involving multiplication and division

3	2	1
Can interpret products of whole numbers.	With help, can interpret products of whole numbers.	Cannot interpret products of whole numbers.
Can interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers.	With help, can interpret whole number quotients of whole numbers.	Cannot interpret whole number quotients of whole numbers.
Uses multiplication and division within 200 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities.	With help, can use multiplication and division within 200 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities.	Cannot use multiplication and division within 200 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities.
Able to determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.	With help, is able to determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.	Is not able to determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.

Project Checklist

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xUB6tf9KT-xocNq0LiGdIHcU8UjJbNvqGyHePxBDUbM/edit

Calendar  

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8_1t9bWeHyCNVp4X0pWWkpyZ2s/edit

Overview

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8YJIbHFZxzwSWRsUlRubkVTZHhRYnBGOE8yZTNsYnF0eHA0/edit

Rubric

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q5l3Eit3K6qr1l6tcek151cZlK1RXQm2AFplXn0-h-0/edit

Alex
http://alex.state.al.us/standardAll.php?grade=3&subject=MA2013&summary=2

http://bie.org/object/document/project_calendar

C4TP #2

Blogging as a curation platform

By Silvia Tolisano

Teachers and students can their daily blogs to be curators.  A curator is a person who becomes familiar with the writers blog and edit it.

A curator is an expert.  This person collects information, analyzes, connect, interprets, and summarizes the writers blog.   It was interesting learning a curator can be you.  The person who is actually writing.   Curators connect, engage and network with others to arrange and share ideas. There's do's and don't as  a curator.  Don't copy and paste other people content without giving them credit.  It's ok to use a quote.  Limit using links as a platform. Remember to organize, engage, and start a dialogue with your reader. I enjoyed reading this blog to draw the readers attention.  The reader is the audience to continue the conversation between the network tool.

As I reflect on blogging I  learned I can improve in collaborating my ideas with my community. I can create a blog without using twitter using as many comments as I like. I can share quality information with networks. I like I can customize my own network.

June 10, 2014

"Copyright Flowchart: Can I Use It? Yes? No? If This... Then..."

This blog was very informative how educator's should model students digital citizenship. Since the digital era, it's the responsibility of the educator to decide if the information or graphic is under the Fair use. The flow chart  shows how an educator can create their own domain. Students and teachers can explore creating their own domain, search public and common domains, and determine if the site is credited under the Fair USE.  Students and teachers should  be conscious when selecting to use other material in teaching and school work.

C4Ta #2

Quick Collection of Bring Your Own Device BYOD (Resources)

June 12, 2014 author Steven Anderson wrote a blog on BYOD.  "BYOD" means bring your own device.  Students bring their device they are familiar with to school.  Teachers must be creative and think how this will impact their teaching.   Teachers ask important questions on how they will see and become an expert on all the devices at the same time.  It's great a idea for some students to have a personal device.  I find it a downside for the students who are nit as fortunate to come to school with their BYOD.   Edutopia and Livebinder have a resources teachers can see the good and bad adverse reactions this can impact their daily lessons.

I experienced my children BYOD to school.  Teachers allowed the students to use it during their down time after assessments, research and reading centers, science, and math periods.  Some teachers saw BYOD as a distraction to the classroom.  I find it difficult keeping up with 20-25 different BYOD at the same time. Students can drift away from explicit instruction and start playing games, if not monitored frequently.

3 Simple Rules for Attending Any Conference

http://blog.web20classroom.org/

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June 20, 2014 by Steven Anderson

This blog gave me lots of insights on attending any conference to organize, plan,  reflect, engage, inquire past and future ideas in the classrooms.  Some tips I learned were to prepare, time, and gather prior knowledge on the conference. It's important to "put your thinking cap", to explore and think of ideas you want to know about a specific topic. Use Twitter to share and communicate learning with others.   This is a good start to blogging , if no one has ever done so.

Project #8 Book Trailer

Blog Post #5 PLNs What Are They?

What are personal learning networks?

Personal learning networks are cost effective. Teachers grow professional development and set goals as a educator. Teachers can seek advice, practice, and network with other professionals. Educators are connected to grow and improve constantly. Be patient!

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Personal learning networks connect, contribute, converse, and request ideas.  It's important to have networking tools like blog, use google, twitter, and other search engines to connect valuable information.

I created a PLN with Netvibes.  It's similar to MSN.com   I like how I can create and arrange my dashboard. My co workers can connect with me on Netvibes.  It's a great site. All your social networks are available on one page.  I find this very convenience.  Check it out!

www.netvibes.com

Blog Post #6

What do you learn from these conversations with Anthony Capps?

Project Base Learning Part 1 and 2: Experience of a 3rd Grade Teacher

There are 4 goals to teaching effectively.  These goals must involve student engagement, a community, an authentic audience, and must be driven by content.

                                                                                                      

iCurio:

Anthony uses iCurio to allow his students to safely search websites that has been pulled by him. iCurio can search text, videos, audio, and other digital. iCurio has a built in storage capacity for students and teachers to store content. Students practice virtual organization to help them create topics, sort and create folders, audio and video. What a great feature.

Teachers love iCurio because it has kid friendly buttons.  It's great for collecting data and research. Students can start and drop a folder and return back to finish where they left off. Students can use timelines which has a historically figure with a directory feature.  They can search a topic by criteria. Any grade level can use iCurio.  It has a great number of videos, graphs, charts, and read aloud accessibility for blind students and with learning disabilities. iCurio meets the Alabama College and Career Ready Standards.

Discovery Education:

Discovery Education provides digital transition through comprehensive base content.  Anthony uses discovery education to use audio and videos to retain information.  Discovery education brings an expert into the classroom. Students can associate reading and enrich their research experience. Anthony give his students an opportunity to bring text to life.  Students can compare and contrast what their learning. 

The Anthony-Strange list of Tips for Teachers Part 1:

Anthony and Dr. Strange both state it's important to prepare a lesson. Here is a list of tips:

1) Teachers should always be a learner. 

2) Teaching is hard work and fun at the same time.  Teachers must be dedicated and fascinated about their work. 

3) Teachers must be creative, flexible, and respond to events.

Don't Teach Tech: by Anthony Capps and Dr. Strange:

Technology is natural to students.  Technology should not be a part of your lesson plan.  Anthony says introduce technology smartly. Scaffolding is a tool to use in technology. Students want to share and ask valuable questions. Asking questions can give us a platform. Students can create, clean, research, and share information.  Students can use technology to get excited and scaffold one tool at a time . Students will be able to build and reflect on the new tool, and discuss what they have learned.  

Additional Thought about Lessons:

Anthony provides important thoughts when making a lesson plan. A lesson plan is 4 layers thick.
Yearly, Unit, Weekly, and Daily are 4 components to think about meeting your teaching goal. How it fits in your year and  asking yourself is all my Alabama standards going to be covered. Have you devised  your unit and its meaningful, will it cover 6-8 weeks, what projects and scaffold tools used to build research data properly? Am I going to be meet my goal?

Project #7 "This is My Sentence " and "This is My Passion" Video

Project #3 Presentation

Project #15 Search Engines

Eight Search Engines:

Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge search engine.   You can find historical information, unit conversions, view and create charts, website data, statistics finances, social networks, and work out mathematical problems. This site is great for tutoring.   My students can plug in equations in the search bar and ensure a final result. 

Freecycle  is great on saving the environment.  Freecycle can be found in your local neighborhood. Freecycle offers tangible goods to prevent them from going into our landfills. People can offer and obtain items for FREE! This site can teach my students the uses of reuse, recycle, and reduce in science, math, and many projects around the classroom.  This encourages students to save materials and promote to enables a cleaner environment. There's nothing like a bargain, when it can be used to good purposes.

Thinking about traveling? How about you consider Kayak for booking vacations, hotels, flights, and car rentals at low fares.  Kayak compares rates on over a hundred sites in one stop. Students can compare and contrast between data to draw conclusions. I like using Kayak because it saves time looking for other competitors' prices.
 

 iCurio is a SAFE and effective  search engine for parents and students.  Icurio promotes comprehensive digital learning.  Icurio is a digital curriculum that can be modified on the individuals learning abilities. I can use  icurio to be interactive with the students, to enrich, remediate, and enhance their learning.   I can personalize my lessons to assist student's personal needs in the classroom.  I can use my guided practice books along with Common Core to create different lesson plans. Since time and flexibility is limited as a teacher I can use this interactive tool to manage my classroom achievements. Every student can learn with "videos, text, and learning games." My students will emphasize and be self motivated in learning with collaboration and sharpen critical thinking skills.

Prezi is a search engine which students can search interactive presentations on any topic to further their knowledge base or gain a better understanding.  It allows students to create and display two different ideas and collaborate and share with an audience.  This is ideal for students telling a story or make comparison to a play they saw on television.  Students using Prezi can express ideas as visual metaphors.  The presentation use animation, import Powerpoint slides, add text, edit mode, and present mode.  My students can create a story, which they can allow information to be more compelling and visual.  Students can elaborate and brain storm to identify components of the story.  Prezi is another way saying I'm an artist or author.  I like how Prezi will motivate my readers to write and perform great works of writing.

                                                                    

Skype is a search engine that students and educators can search for other student and educators in order to communicate all across the globe. Skype enhances real live communication among people at one time.  Skype can be used to  interview with other student in different countries.  Skype is an online way to connect distance learning with students, parents, involving communities to make connections.  Students can adapt to collaborative projects through streamlining the internet. I can let students explore and take and  adventure into cultures.  Students can make inferences on climates, population, history, gather information all through Skype. Skype is a great way to search for connections.

Twitter is a search engine that  people can communicate sending short messages, instantly online.  Teachers use twitter as as way to post assignments, create hash tags, news feeds, role play, take live field trips, and ask questions.  Students can receive a quick response from their teacher.  Teachers can also get feedback from other colleagues and connect parents on what's happening in their classroom.  Twitter can express ideas and blogs to communicate  daily trends everywhere. I found twitter very interactive using videos, posting puzzles and games for children. 

BING is a resourceful search engine to  help translating words. I use bing very frequently to search for information without spending a lot of time.  Bing search box finds the information I want to search by word specific. Bing has reliable information I can get a map ,food, news, specific images, and finds the answers you want to know. 

Blog Post #4

Asking Questions: What questions do we ask? How do we ask?

The effective way of asking questions is open-ended, closed-ended, and Bloom's Taxonomy. Open-ended questions clarify a vague comment, assess learning, explore attitudes, refine a statement, allow students to respond to each other.  Close-ended questions test retention and comprehension. Bloom's Taxonomy identifies cognitive progresses and ordered level of complexity involved. Remember to ask specific questions to ensure the students' understanding, randomly call student's names, generate a list of questions, and propose a question that gets the students thinking.  Give students a moment to think of the direct question. The responses to open-ended questions will get students brain storming and provide specific details about the topic.  The teacher can listen, engage, and check for comprehension. Close ended questions will allow a student to respond with yes or no.  The  Bloom's Taxonomy, by Benjamin Johnson provides questions to gather retention and another way of thinking. Students use think pair share questions to demonstrate clarity.  I found these methods very helpful, when getting the classroom engaged in assessing learning, supporting assertion and interpretations of the materials.

I would like to use opened ended questions in my classroom.   Open-ended questions is a very effective way to see how the student think and value information.  Ask effective questions to measure and improve student learning.  When we ask closed-ended questions students answer quick and give a limited response.  Questions are important and help us learn to critical think.

Asking better questions deeper learning by Ben Johnson

Project #6 C4Tp#1

"You thought it could not be done in math"

I have been assigned to Silvia Tolisano. She is the author of Langwitches Blog. The Blog describes math problems. She discusses the virtues of showing off the students work using data.  She observes how students bring mathematical problems alive across the internet world. The data illustrates understanding  of various types of math problems. The student navigates data and then enters them into a computer.  The information is stores and shared with others. She couldn't believe that English teachers were not taking advantage of this writing technique. It sets a "platform" in which students can acquire knowledge of solving problems with a variety of different steps. The students can also gain writing skills with the added benefit of learning to illustrate their thinking when it comes to solving mathematical problems on electronic devices. It functions as another effective method of obtaining knowledge.

"Blogging as pedagogy facilitate learning"

Looking at my C4Tp#2 comment, the main idea of this blogging pedagogy reflects on writing, sharing, reading the data, learning various concepts, and gaining feedback from the students.  The blogging pedagogy explains how reflection improves reading and writing skills.   The audience can visualize cognitive thinking.   The writing concepts enable the student to use media forms, and resources. It prepares the audience to connect experiences and leave feedback to the blogger to facilitate learning.  There are many benefits to include reading, writing, reflecting, and sharing in a blog.   The audience receives feedback to the writer to improve and evaluate your teaching practices. I learned the writer gathers a collaboration of ideas and connects their experience using mixed media.   I didn't know the audience has such a great influence on the writers' blog post.   The blog is channeled into a digital space known as the Reading Environment. The way blogging can be used in English or Literature can evoke debates or be used as writing prompts.   A blog can create an interactive platform in the classroom.  I find this fun to teach students step-by-step procedures. It helps the students to visualize, create graphs, and gain knowledge in  statistics. Finally, it assists the students in understanding the complex reasoning of mathematical problem.

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Project #4 C4Ta#1

Independent Learner

After reading Dahl Blog, it provided ways to change a classroom of student's ability to stay engaged, focused, and ready to learn. The students learned how to use their brain to plan and think about their own abilities of learning.  The strategies of using "explicit teaching" methods spoke volumes.  The studies illustrated that students made a much more marginal difference than one's struggling with the idea of not practicing over again. Classroom management was more effective because the student used their minds to think and analyze the information. The students investigated the data and recalled the practices learned. A cognitive strategy builds the understanding of the concepts. The students improve effectively by modeling thinking, transferring, and understanding waves of information.  The student is able to practice communicate the reasoning for writing language, and use manipulation.  It builds a strong background on concepts and language barrier when communicating with peers.  The idea of sharing knowledge is to explain, ask questions, make connections, and predict the student to judge their assignments.  The student can distinguish between what's relevant and irrelevant information, from reading and practices, throughout their core studies.

I took some appreciation of engaging and using the brain to explore learning in a different mechanism. My reflection about Dahl blog, I mentioned how dynamics enhanced a brighter future for today's student. It strengthens their person-learning environment. It builds that positive reinforcement.  I can do it! The skills reinforced everyday will allow the student to grasp, by drawing conclusions.  The brain mechanisms will facilitate the ideas and regenerate the thought process.  It takes the struggling reader longer to integrate making reasonable answers and understanding the concept.  I have a better understanding how to get the students engaged in independent learning, especially in small group or independent activities. This allows the student to acknowledge the principles of identifying, analyzing, predicting, practice, and cognitive thinking.

I agree explicit teaching helps the student to develop, discipline and gain cognitive strategies. It reduces many distractions that could affect classroom management. Teachers were able to see rapid improvements in their students learning assessments. The student demonstrates growth, by different learning trends, motivating, and recalling information gained through cognitive strategies. The student begins to build confidence and construct a positive way to learning effectively.

 www.fortheloveofteaching.net

Blog Assignment #3

"How Can you Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers?

When providing meaningful feedback to your peers, always remember to give compliments, suggestions, and make corrections to assist the person with their writing.  Always be specific, creative, and positive! Peer editing helps a writer with spelling, grammar, sentence construction,  and punctuation. These improvements make the writer aware of repetitive mistakes. This allows other readers to make positive suggestions on organization skills., such as, thesis, main ideas, and supporting sentences, finding the evidence to argue, a good conclusion.

I will look at positive and constructive criticism, a little different, as a tool. It's important to use an outline, before I write my sentences.  I like the part of using strong word choices. How can you apply constructive criticism to your paper?