Don\’t knock blogging – it\’s the answer to our literacy problems
If you are looking for a new way to interest boys in writing, please take a look at this article from England.
As part of my class, I maintain a Facebook discussion board where students respond to a question or topic that I pose each week. When I first started this assignment years ago, I felt this it was similar to other assignments I had in class, but I was wrong. While it is true that some students do not like to share their ideas online, many other students thrive on opportunities to write online because they enjoy sharing their ideas with others.
This article also poses the question of whether students will ignore spelling and mechanical rules online, but I have seen the opposite. Since students realize that their writing will be online for everyone to see, they scrutinize their writing closing because they want it to be as good as possible.