Anni
shares her feelings about what she is learning in school on My class work. She
acknowledges having some problems with some parts of speech and many commenters
share tips. Mrs. L tells about a time when she was in the seventh grade and her
teacher made her do something “terrible”. She had to memorize all the
prepositions but now today Mrs. L thinks she needs to remember to thank her
teacher! She would have had trouble with prepositions if she had not done
this. She also adds that it is a great way to impress people! Anni was impressed and that led Anni to a
renewed interest in learning all she could about prepositions!
Eddie learns
from Literacy in ECE, Literacy in ECE learns from Eddie
Eddie’s post “Cat Purrs about Safety Issues” intrigued university student, Literacy in ECE to ask “What are heeleys? . Literacy in ECE mused that maybe she had had her head in a book too long but she wanted to know. She also complemented Eddie on using a cat to speak his thoughts. Note the back and forth interchange between the two where each is learning from the other. By the way, if you are not in the “know” like Eddie, heeleys are shoes that have wheels in the heels.
Emmy scores as a writer and as a soccer player
Emmy’s soccer story was reinforced by Ms. Outspoken's praise of the beginning, the title, the details, and the closing. This was great reinforcement for a budding author who is sharing one of her passions.
Legislators educate
the kids, the kids educate the legislators
Johnny interviewed Representative Roger Bruce at a legislative event at the Georgia Depot. He blogged about his answers. Johnny was lobbying the legislator to add water to the lunch menu for school kids. Check out the interview here.
Seeing two sides and differing views
Lindsey
sparks engaging thoughts and ideas between teachers and students on her Mighty Brains Head to Recess post.
EUD wonders if too many recess periods might become boring and challenges Lindsey’s thinking here. Lindsey is beginning to see two sides of an argument and how to prepare to respond well to the differing views.
This post on M.V.’s science session springboarded a lot of thinking and follow-up from M.V. Having the commenters learn from him was extremely motivating to M.V. as he became very creative in his posts that followed. This was in a large part due to the encouragement and reinforcement he was receiving from the university readers/commenters.
M.V.
even dedicated one of his posts to Cordelia who gave him an idea for a future
post.
From blethering to authoring
It all started with a post on “Blether!!” Literacy in ECE was clueless about the meaning. She did a search on Wikipedia. It did not come up. She was pleased to learn this word from Mary.
Mary has used Wikipedia all year long while blogging but it took a comment from Literacy in ECE to let Mary know that she could be an author on the World Wide Web. Literacy in ECE provided a step-by-step guide on how to do just that and Mary was delighted. Now that’s empowerment!
Back & forth comments stimulate the conversations
Mia’s
post on “Overweight; Overplay” projected her as a proponent in having P.E.
every day. She backed up her beliefs
with sound arguments and that brought forth comments from university students Virtuous,
Blythe and Cordelia. A rally of back and forth questions and answers ensued.
There was even reminiscing about
traditional playground games like green light and red light which are still
played today. Many others besides the university students joined these
stimulating conversations.
"Pizzaz or Pizza" Sparks the Dialogue
Michael post on Pizzaz or Pizza grabs readers attention with his lively imagination and forthright writing.
Notice the good agree/disagree interchange between Ed and Michael. Cynthia and
Michael also compare and contrast their experiences with CNN which gives lots
of food for thought for all of them!
Poetry & Quotes are inspiring
Rosalinda’s
poem “I Am” caused Virtuous to remember how important writing was to her
growing up. They were able to share experiences. This quote from Virtuous “The
power is in the pen and it will follow your command.” stuck with Rosalinda as
she continued to blog and improve in her reading, thinking, and writing
experiences.
T.K. tosses out tough
questions: Cynthia fields good answers
A little push poses possibilities
Tina blogs about Kids+Computers=Education which piques the interest of Peace and Blythe. Tina had given many reasons why she thought students should have more time on computers but the university students helped push her thinking by posing thoughts and possiblilities which got Tina thinking a little deeper.
Lively give
and take to learn from each other