Becky+Singley,+Student+Blogs,+Round+2

=Blogging - Part II=

By reading and responding to the posts inside diigo students make, I will be able to assess where they are on the continuum (emergent to sophisticated consumer). ||
 * **Title**: ||< Student Consumption of Blogs ||
 * **Subject**: ||< English ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 9th ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< Two weeks ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Students will consume a variety of blogs, noting features that support understanding in the "consumer" (a.k.a. reader), as well as features that detract from understanding, and will build a personal "laundry list" of points to include in their blogs. ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< Consumption of blogs
 * By visiting a variety of blogs, students read and visit a variety of blogs, and comment, using diigo, answering the following questions:
 * The way the blogger ________________________________, helps me as a reader because... **//OR//** The way the blogger _________________________________________, hinders me as a reader because...
 * Students will need lessons on how to use diigo
 * use
 * noting
 * highlighting ||
 * Objectives: ||< * What TEKS or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet? ||
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Resources: ||< * What resources will be needed?
 * Students should be able to access diigo via their mobile devices (mini lesson!) or iPads ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || Please share what went well, what was challenging and what you might tweak or modify for your next round.... ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

Discussion:
Use the Embed Widget tool to add a Discussion Area widget. Bump the number to 100. This will take the comments from the discussion tab and add them to the bottom of the page. This will encourage teacher reflection and modification.