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Comment on Borrowed understanding by KevinHodgson

KevinHodgson — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:38:26 +0000

Thanks for the reference to Wiggins and Backwards Design, and the reminder of how students move through the acquisition of ideas and then the ownership of their own ideas as influenced by the prism of mentor texts.
Kevin

Comment on Mentor Text in the Digital Writing Workshop: Cultural Participation by Mr Bass Online » Borrowed understanding

Mr Bass Online » Borrowed understanding — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:40:49 +0000

[...] of digital writing and creating provided me with the opportunity to borrow my understanding of content, process and technique from [...]

Comment on Mentoring a process by Considering Mentor Texts 5: Reflections and Observations

Considering Mentor Texts 5: Reflections and Observations — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:21 +0000

[...] Bill’s post about how one video idea spurred on another, and then created a sort of resonance …, was interesting, and it reminded me of how much of that is going on with my students outside of school, particularly around video. More and more of my students have their own YouTube accounts, and when they share what they are doing with me (and I ask them “why did you do that kind of video?”), they often answer with “I saw it on …” I suppose this was always the case — we saw something on TV and tried to replicate it — but now the tools for composition are in the hands of more young people, and they are unafraid to make a ripple in the world. [...]

Comment on DEN event in St. Louis on January 28th. Free PD for teachers. by Stephanie Madlinger (@cyberteacher)

Stephanie Madlinger (@cyberteacher) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:50:01 +0000

I will be there! Thanks for sharing with your peeps!

Comment on Mentoring a process by KevinHodgson

KevinHodgson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:17:03 +0000

This idea of recursive connections — and how one piece of work inspires another — takes place all the time outside of school, right? (And you have been showing that in your posts). When the digital tool opens up the possibilities of an authentic audience (and not just the teacher), sometimes something interesting clicks. The motivation and the incentive to be a bit daring can come into play. It’s interesting to think about on many levels.
Kevin

Comment on Mentoring technique by Mr Bass Online » Mentoring a process

Mr Bass Online » Mentoring a process — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:42:10 +0000

[...] think of when I look at students creations is kind of a combination of the other two, (content and technique). This last mentoring type is “process”. Last year, some high school art students [...]

Comment on Mentor Text in the Digital Writing Workshop: Cultural Participation by Mr Bass Online » Mentoring a process

Mr Bass Online » Mentoring a process — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:39:34 +0000

[...] that I think of when I look at students creations is kind of a combination of the other two, (content and technique). This last mentoring type is “process”. Last year, some high school art [...]

Comment on Mentoring technique by KevinHodgson

KevinHodgson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:40:32 +0000

I like this excerpt from your post:
“When a work (be that a video, text or other medium) leads someone to explore a space that is unfamiliar to them and gives them guidance, it can most certainly be classified as a mentor to the new work.”
I also liked how you “noticed” elements of the work that at first glance might not be there — and this is something that we need to do. As students explore new tools, and as we teachers consider the possibilities of new tools, we need to be ever more focused on what kind of learning is taking place.
Thanks for sharing another great post!
Kevin

Comment on Mentor Text in the Digital Writing Workshop: Cultural Participation by Mr Bass Online » Mentoring technique

Mr Bass Online » Mentoring technique — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:05:12 +0000

[...] I wrote about how content can be the basis for mentoring when you take an initial text and, using the same kind of content, morph it into something similar [...]

Comment on Mentor Text in the Digital Writing Workshop: Cultural Participation by Mr Bass Online » Honoring mentor text choices

Mr Bass Online » Honoring mentor text choices — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:18:28 +0000

[...] evening as I was writing my last post on cultural participation, my son came strolling in with a little handheld video camera he and his sister had received for [...]