Blogging in the Shakespeare Classroom
Here’s a good example of a high school English teacher using a blog to post and collect student assignments. This is one sample assignment for students in the middle of reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
Your assignment now is to take this mixed-up love mess and bring it to a conclusion with a happy ending. As it stands right now, everything is messed up and needs resolution. Assume the role of a narrator and finish the story. This is your chance to predict how this all turns out in the real play.
The students can now write a response to this and read what others have written as well. It seems like a lot of this is going on at home, but as more and more schools adopt one-to-one computing environments (something I’ve personally been very active in for the past year and a half), the more this sort of thing will become commonplace classroom practice.
This presentation from Karl Fisch has been making the rounds.
Students entering kindergarten this September will graduate from high school in 2020. How will the world be run then? How old will you be in that year? It’s not really that far off, is it?
Discuss.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Bill: Thanks for mentioning my classroom site. It’s been quite an interesting year for me this year as I’ve begun to discover many so many different web 2.0 technologies I’ve been able to bring into the classroom. So far, the students have seemed to respond well to posting their homework in this manner. It’s easier on both of us. And as you mentioned, it provides an opportunity for students to read each other’s work. That’s an area I’d really like to improve on in the future.
Your posting has gotten me thinking and I may use it in class to show students how what we put “out there” on the Internet does get read and responded to. It’s a good real-world lesson. Thanks again and I look forward to reading future postings from you.