Teaching to reach every single student

This is a brief update on what I have been working on for the past week in my school.

After some time sharing with other teachers in my building about blogs and what has been happening to and with my students since I began my (science) class blog back in October, some things (meaning blogs) have really started to happen.

Last week, I set up edublogs for two of our English teachers, one in 8th grade; the other in 6th. One of the best parts about the whole process was demonstrating that it takes minutes to set up a blog and BAM!! you now have a brand new tool to use with your students.

As many of us have discovered, a blog is not just one thing. I imagine this is particularly true in an educational setting. (Note to self — look for articles about this).

The point is this, these two teachers are now thinking actively about what this tool will allow them to do with their students.

Then, on Monday, I was helping one of our Spanish teachers record some dialogue podcasts (the whole language/dialogue thing seems perfect for podcasts to me). In figuring out how and where to post them, I arrived at the solution that she could post them on the blog she didn’t yet have. BAM!! Now she does.

Right now I am really charged up on the idea that we build it (the blog) and they (the amazing instructional moments) will come.