Remarquable article Peter Ford sur le phénomène de l’utilisation des carnets à l’école. Il y décrit admirablement bien la mécanique qui se met en place quand on choisi d’y investir des énergies. À lire absolument! (Mario… tu t’y reconnaîtras!)
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« This weblog became my class website and I posted information and began to model writing to my students. They began posting their own work and comments to the weblog using the inbuilt discussion function. Within a few weeks they had all created their own weblogs. I assumed a mass of educators around the globe would already be taking advantage of this exciting technology but only a handful was. My students became weblogging pioneers, an exciting situation for 11 year-olds to find themselves in.
That is how our adventure with weblogs started. Two years down the line, my students had been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald and their writing viewed by many thousands of readers. They had collaborated with students and teachers across the globe. Life was not been dull after discovering weblogs. However, the simple, intuitive nature of the weblog remains its principal strength. […]
Writing for a real audience not only encourages students to become habitual writers, but also to take seriously the responsibility of writing to the web. Involvement with weblogs helps students realize that they are adding to the rag-tag body of knowledge that makes up the Internet. […]
There is a sense in the school that both adults and students are exploring this powerful weblogging phenomenon together. What started off as a Year Six venture, quickly spread to the rest of the school. Every class in our school now has a class weblog. […] Recently a number of parents have created their own weblogs as a shared writing space with their Nursery children. […]
The simple nature of weblogging means that it can immediately make an impact. Teachers start to think about how they can use weblog to complement their own subject expertise and start to explore ways of using the internet for themselves. Skills that are often hidden behind a closed classroom door become visible online for others to benefit from. It helps foster a climate of collaboration. […]
The number of educators using weblogs to enhance their teaching is increasing. It is a great time for schools to examine the potential of weblogs for enhancing their own teaching and their student’s learning. »
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