Two on Tuesday
More and more teachers at our school have voiced an interest in blogging. Whether this interest is in creating a teacher blog or a student blog, a great place to start is to simply begin reading different blogs. To help those who don’t know where to begin, I’ll highlight two each week that I have found personally interesting, inspiring, or perhaps challenging in some way. This week both posts provide examples of project-based learning.
The first post is Reading Plants by Jabiz Raisdana whose blog, The Intrepid Teacher, I just recently discovered. In this post Jabiz shares his story of working with struggling readers and how he connected a gardening project with the book Where the Red Fern Grows through the common theme of perseverance and hard work found in both.
et al. by Bob Sprankle who writes Bit by Bit, illustrates how kids are actually attempting to “see” a million by raising one million pennies.
A penny for your thoughts on these posts and your views on project-based learning.
on February 19th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Thanks for the links. I am following you on Twitter and hope that we can learn from each other in the future.
on February 24th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Thanks Wendy! I will definitely look forward to seeing the blogs you find each week. If anyone knows how to set up individual “blogs-within-a-blog” (so each student could have his/her own section) please let me know. This is the direction I’m hoping to head in with my class blog next.
on June 18th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Sounds interesting. Thanks for info .I like You Now! (sounds weird.. should say I follow you Now!.. )