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Folk & Fairy Tales--Lecture Notes 10/4

Fall 2010 Bloggers Start with a Bang!

I just finished grading the first blog entries of the semester, and I am very impressed with the level of quality as a whole.  The class average was 16 points out a possible 18.  I have individually commented on each of your posts and will share those with you in class tomorrow in writing.  I would like to share some general comments.  

Summer 2010 Children's Literature Blog Review

These are the blogs of the students in the summer 2010 section of this course that previously appeared under the classmate blog URL list.  Use them as inspiration or guidance as you embark on your own blogging experience.

Anastasia

Dana

Joyce

Kimberly

Lauren

Lisa

Paula

Sarah

Sarah P.

Reader's Workshop Literacy Lesson

Click to link to the visualizing lesson done in class this evening.

Memoir and Historical Fiction

Making Movies in Your Mind

Adding an image to a Blogger Post

Lesson Planning

How to embed a link in Blogger

Congratulations Bloggers!

I know that it was overwhelming to be thrown into the world of blogging by creating and maintaining your own blog on Children's Literature. I also know that it will be a rewarding experience for you.

I just finished reading all of your blog posts and I have to say that I am very impressed with all of your first attempts at blogging.  I am proud of all of you!  Your blogs were graphically appealing and for the most part were quite well written.  I enjoyed reading all of them.

Some pointers for future posts:

• Inject more of your personal voice into your writing:  Your readers want to hear you, not robotic facts and figures
• Write less of a summary:  Try not to think of your blog as a book report.  Think about your personal connections to the text and talk about that (text-to-self; text-to-text; text-to-world)

Overall, you all did a great job and should really be very proud of yourselves.  Continue to look at your classmates' blogs as well.  Learn from each other.  

Blogger: A How-To

ALA Children's Literature Awards