About this Noteblog

Noteblog entries completed across the semester will include discussion of assigned readings, special topics, response to children's literature, and language arts activities. These will be assigned to help us prepare for class and/r to write about our ideas during or after class. For each of these entries, we should try to discuss ideas from multiple sources--class discussions, course readings, personal experiences, classroom-based experiences, and reading of children's literature. We are encourage (but not required) to experiment with a variety of modes of expression--narrative, poetry, essay, journalistic, stories, charts, diagrams, representations, and so on.

This noteblog is where we will post required entries and respond to the ideas we are seeing expressed in others' entries. Noteblog postings are due prior to the start of class. Responses to postings are due prior to the next week's class.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

1st post!

So I don't really know what to write about really, this can't be boring because no one would want to read it, and that's what we have to do every week! So, to keep it short and simple...the article I read was about instructional conversations between teachers and students, and among students themselves! I mostly was interested in the article (lots of information) about the way it was modeled...it seems as you read it that the teacher is just simply leading the students in a conversation about friends, but what she is REALLY doing is allowing them to think and discuss the complex ideas (good and bad things) about friendship. The rest of the article was simply telling what a teacher does and how an instructional conversation is structured...It was a long drawn out article with a lot of the same things repeated, but I guess overall I just learned about what a instructional conversation is....which sounds like a detailed discussion to me but they so differently! See you all tomorrow!
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