[Icvv] Re: Bern Holland ICVV

[Susan Gaer]

-I have hear about blogs but have never used them. It
might be a nice way to start our communication with
our partners. Bern could you help us learn how to get
a blog. I think we will need one for  each set of
partners.

Also, I will be participating this year as well as
faciilitating. I am volunteering at a special needs
school and we will have two classes participating. One
will be elementary/middle school age and the other
high school age. The kids are all special needs with
learning/dicipline problems and the majority come from
lower income families. Although many of them are
native speakers of English, they all have language and
learning problems. I won't be meeting the students
until October so I would need to start after that. I
will give a more detailed description of the groups
after I meet them.

I would like to hook up one class with James Backer if
possible.

-- David Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hello Bern,
> 
> On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 11:49  AM, 
> bholland at lawrence.k12.ma.us wrote:
> 
> > How practical would it be to use a Blog rather
> than or in addition to 
> > email
> > for learner correspondence?
> > Bern Holland
> 
> Thanks for this question.  It's a good example of
> what I mean by 
> creativity from the participants.  I think a "blog"
> has a lot of 
> potential.
> 
> For the benefit of those who may not know this term,
> a "blog" is short 
> for "Web log,"  narrative or expository, often very
> informal, web-based 
> writing.  Some blogs I have seen have been
> first-person accounts of 
> news stories, some have been travel diaries or
> journals.  There are 
> lots of other uses I bet.
> 
> Anyone interested in doing a "blog" website or
> component with Bern's 
> classes in Lawrence, Massachusetts?
> 
> Anyone -- including you, Bern -- care to add to my
> (limited) 
> description of a blog and its capacity?
> 
> Susan Gaer, have you been using blogs?  Has anyone
> else? How?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> David
> David J. Rosen
> djrosen at comcast.net
> 
> 
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Susan Gaer, Santa Ana College, School of Continuing Education
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