Comments on: When Parents Contribute to Student Blogs… http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/when-parents-contribute-to-student-blogs/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Harbeck http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/when-parents-contribute-to-student-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-3590 Chris Harbeck Tue, 30 May 2006 20:45:57 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/when-parents-contribute-to-student-blogs/#comment-3590 On my latest Growing Post assignments I had the students get their parents watch and add comments to the work they were doing. I only received positive feedback. Anything to get parents and students involved together is a good thing. Growing Post Hall of Fame sp8mathzone.pbwiki.com On my latest Growing Post assignments I had the students get their parents watch and add comments to the work they were doing. I only received positive feedback. Anything to get parents and students involved together is a good thing.

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]]> By: Teaching and Developing Online. http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/when-parents-contribute-to-student-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-3545 Teaching and Developing Online. Mon, 29 May 2006 16:44:04 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/when-parents-contribute-to-student-blogs/#comment-3545 <strong>When Parents Contribute to Student Blogs…...</strong> Anne pointed to this pretty amazing exchange that occurred on one of her student blogs recently, and it’s an interesting and effective example of how involved parents can contribute to their childrens’ learning in these more transparent spaces. Whe... When Parents Contribute to Student Blogs……

Anne pointed to this pretty amazing exchange that occurred on one of her student blogs recently, and it’s an interesting and effective example of how involved parents can contribute to their childrens’ learning in these more transparent spaces. Whe…

]]> By: Miles Berry http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/when-parents-contribute-to-student-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-3533 Miles Berry Mon, 29 May 2006 13:01:15 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/when-parents-contribute-to-student-blogs/#comment-3533 I think this is a great idea, but for those of us with pupils blogging inside <em>walled gardens</em>, I'm not sure how one goes about this practically - and whilst it's fine for Zachary's folks to comment on his posts, some might have concerns about them reading and commenting on Amy's blog. I suppose public, anonymous blogs are a way round this, but these waters get very murky. The post reminds me of <a href="http://elgg.net/happytrails/weblog/2407.html" rel="nofollow">Jeff Flyn's insightful notion</a> of blogging in early-years education, where instead of the child posting, the blog becomes a place to collate together the input from all those concerned with a child's education: <blockquote>With blogs, might we guide students to reflection through writing dialogue. Elgg provides for friends and community, but for younger learners might we guide parents, siblings, grandparents and others to participate in these dialogues and reflections. Does lifelong learning really only start in the high schools? Might parent/family supports as well as teacher guidance be combined to provide a systemic scaffolding for our youngest learners? What if when Jose or Liz start school, their parents and teachers during their first conference set up a learning landscape that might have mementos/artifacts of support or affection (audio affirmations, notes of exhortation, pictures of good times, etc.) as well as objectives and guiding questions? </blockquote> I think this is a great idea, but for those of us with pupils blogging inside walled gardens, I’m not sure how one goes about this practically – and whilst it’s fine for Zachary’s folks to comment on his posts, some might have concerns about them reading and commenting on Amy’s blog. I suppose public, anonymous blogs are a way round this, but these waters get very murky.

The post reminds me of Jeff Flyn’s insightful notion of blogging in early-years education, where instead of the child posting, the blog becomes a place to collate together the input from all those concerned with a child’s education:

With blogs, might we guide students to reflection through writing dialogue. Elgg provides for friends and community, but for younger learners might we guide parents, siblings, grandparents and others to participate in these dialogues and reflections. Does lifelong learning really only start in the high schools? Might parent/family supports as well as teacher guidance be combined to provide a systemic scaffolding for our youngest learners? What if when Jose or Liz start school, their parents and teachers during their first conference set up a learning landscape that might have mementos/artifacts of support or affection (audio affirmations, notes of exhortation, pictures of good times, etc.) as well as objectives and guiding questions?

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