Hi everyone,
Welcome to our course blog! For those of you new to
blogging, hopefully this experience will expand your ideas for online
communication to use in your classroom or for personal use.
For you bloggers out there, please feel free to use options
you are already familiar with such as adding links or other helpful media to
your posts. Each month, you will be logging in and posting your thoughts and
comments related to our course reading.
This is a place where you can share and discuss how what you
are learning from your course readings, from our discussions in our meetings,
and your interactions with your professional learning communities and grade
level groups as you collaborate to find strategies and solutions to meet your
students' needs as readers and writers.
Please share successes and failures as you work to implement
what you are learning into your classroom practice. Most of all, reflect on your learning
process. In order for us to extend our classroom community to an online setting
with this blog, it is important that you also read and respond to the posts of
your peers. After each month's course meetings, please post your thoughts and
then also choose two of your colleagues to respond to as well. Please also feel
free to share any questions, comments, or suggestions.
I look forward to the learning process that will occur from
this online community.
Sincerely,
Dawn Mitchell & Nicole Brown
