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Thanks for
joining me for the eighth virtual fieldtrip. While numerous of
you have participated in virtual fieldtrips with me before, this
virtual fieldtrip has some NEW twists! For those that haven't,
here is a quick overview of the premise of my virtual fieldtrips.
I will be physically traveling to China. To get
the students actively involved in this experience, students must read
our biographies and itinerary
Biographies/Itinerary. This give students a better idea of
what interests Dr. Novak and I. WHY do they need this
knowledge? Students will be suggesting places for us to visit
during the trip. Knowledge of the itinerary is important since
students can not suggest a place for us to visit IF we are no longer
there!
How are students going to suggest places for us
to visit? THIS is the new twist to the virtual fieldtrip.
I will be blogging the whole experience while I am in China.
While both of my student web pages,
China - Get A Chinese Name
and Blogging with Mrs. Novak explain
what blogging is and Internet safety, they do not explain how you
can actually manage the blogging experience with your students.
There are numerous ways for you to take advantage
of this experience with your students. Here are a few.
Reading the blog:
1.) Do a group reading of the blog from your classroom computer
sometime during your school day.
2.) Print out the daily blog entries and have them available for
students to read. The printing out of the daily blog entries
can be assigned to a single student or group of students. In
the past, students have loved doing this.
3.) Group read the blog entries during your scheduled or
additional time in the computer lab or library.
Blogging responses:
1.) Do a group classroom response to my blog. This is
perhaps the simplest and quickest since you will be doing the
typing. You and your students can do a group edit it.
2.) Set up several small groups of students that will work together
as a team to create and edit a single blog response. This is
an excellent approach but takes a little more time and management.
Makes sure students understand that you should look at their blog
entry before they press the submit button. YES, I can take
inappropriate blog entries off the blog.
3.) Individual student respond to my blog. Using this
approach, I suggest each student have an assigned partner for peer
reviewing. Even with this step, you just might want to take a
look at what students are posting before they press the submit
button.
Please relax and enjoy doing this. Blogging can be
GREAT fun!
Below
you will see my lesson plans, other teacher lesson plans, grading
rubrics and other useful information to help you along with this
project. Yours, Claudia Novak |
