Reflections on Widen your classroom with blogs

The fours week blogging course has come to an end, and it’s time to reflect. It has been an intensive four weeks and I’ve met a lot of friendly and very motivated people. They have overcome problems and persevered to create their own space in the internet. It is easy  to forget how daunting that can. [...]

Blogging the world

Sometimes things just seem to come together. At the moment I’ve got two projects going. I was contacted by a teacher over in California with a request for collaboration. Now I have my 5th graders writing in English to other 5th graders in the States. This is exactly how I imagine my kids learning English [...]

What is a community? Reflections on weeks 2 and 3

After following the threads of the FOC course and reading through some of the blogs, my idea of what a community has started taking a different form. In one of the threads Leigh reacts to a blog post from Minhaaj saying: Minhaaj then goes on to point out something possibly overlooked in the consideration of [...]