Term1-Lesson4
Leading the learning
The learning intention for this lesson was writing quality blog comments. The purpose behind this lesson is to encourage learners to comment and interact wit each others work online.
Quality blog commenting is an important part of the LEARN CREATE SHARE model, so it's important to run a cyber smart lesson on this regularly.
In this lesson I ran a short workshop session, where the learners commented on each others recent writing posts, about our school Fiafia. Learners later left the mat and were asked to comment on 2 other Fiafia posts from around the school. This lesson was the last part of writing that week.
Reflection/ Next steps
This lesson was very successful. Almost all my learners produced quality blog comments, and repeated the task successfully independently. One thing that perhaps could of been done better (and I will put a huge emphasis on this next time) was the importance of reading a post before writing a comment. To write a 'quality blog comment' you must have read post thoroughly. I noticed that when some of my learners were working independently they attempted to 'wing it' a little bit, and had not actually engaged with the blog post properly (and still did a fairly good job to their credit).
Things to note
Unlike the previous episodes, this episode shows a whole class lesson. The work and examples, come from a combination of whole class writing lessons, and group level workshops.
Learning Site Content
FiafiaWalt: organise my ideas into paragraphs and link them together. 1. Read the instructions carefully. 2. Listen to your teachers instructions and paticipate in whole class discussion before attempting this writing task. 3. Using the template provided, follow your teachers instructions and write a quality introduction for your writing. You will need to use these three sentence types. - Question - Simple sentence - Complex sentence 4. Following further instructions and discussion, continue working on the rest of your writing. Paragraph 2: Details - Who, What, When, Where, Why Paragraph 3: Your group - Tell the reader about the group you paticipated in - Why did you choose it Paragraph 4: Favourite performance - Out of all the groups which was your favourite - Why did you like it Conclusion - What were your thougths about Fiafia 5. Check with a buddy before sharing on your blog. 6. Create a poster for our School Fiafia DVD - See the instructions
Fiafia DVD task
Your task is to create a poster advertising our Fiafia Dvd.
- Using google draw you will create a poster to share on your blog.
- Look at posters online to help you think about your design.
- You don't need much information on your poster so focus on visual appeal.
Blog Commenting Presentation
