Walking Stick Blogger

A Learning Space for Literacy and English Language Learners

High-Stakes Reflective Blogging within Cohorts

This is a follow-up to Jen Ross’ excellent comment, which I insert here: …from my point of view the danger isn’t so much ridicule and indifference as a construction of a writing self that ‘hides its own mechanisms’ – that pretends there is no audience and no strategic choices being made for the benefit of…

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Blogging and Literacy Instruction

One of the greatest challenges I have had as a literacy educator is to reconcile the teaching of the strictly academic writing curriculum with real needs of learners whose interests in academic writing are limited. The major obstacle for literacy instruction seems to be that despite curriculum guidelines that require training in formal writing, most learners don’t…

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High-Stakes Reflection as Performance Blogging

Path-Finding Activity: I was reviewing Lilia Efimova’s mathemagenic blog, and came across Jen Ross’ blog. Her ideas resonated with me in that I had summarized a crucial issue for student bloggers that needs to be addressed, and found many of her ideas are aligned to mine. I seek to encourage student bloggers to see the…

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Scratch Notes – Frameworks for Learning

The CoI framework is comprised of three interdependent and dynamic structural elements: social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence. Social Presence Social presence has been defined recently by Garrison (2009) as “the ability of participants to identify with the community (e.g., course of study), communicate purposefully in a trusting environment, and develop inter-personal relationships by…

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About Play-Building and Using Group Blogs

Robyn Philip and  Jennifer Nicholls (2009) wrote an interesting article about group blogging, titled Group blogs: Documenting collaborative drama processes Here are some notes about the significance of play-building, a process that involves the documentation of collaboration, reflection and creativity. Playbuilding is described as Group devised theatre, in which “students create, produce and perform the play to…

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