Photo-Taking, Video-Making, Journaling, and Blogging
Journals, Diaries, & Blogs
Journals
8 Famous Visionaries Who Kept a Journal:
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Marie Curie
Meriweather Lewis
William Clark
Leonardo da Vinci
Frida Kahlo
Mark Twain
Leonardo da Vinci: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #10. Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce. Random House Books for Young Readers, 2012
Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Still Journal
I Wonder Journals
Exploring Rain Forests: A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation. Anita General. Heinemann Library, 2014
How Does My Garden Grow? Writing in Science Field Journals, National Council of Teachers of English
Feldgang - a close exploration, a quiet deep dive into the world
Page from Darwin's notebooks around July 1837, showing his first sketch of an evolutionary tree
Diaries
Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal. Jeff Kinney. Amuelet Books, 2018
Dog Diaries: Secret Writings of the WOOF Society. Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffy and Laurie Myers. Illustrated by Erik Brooks. Henry Holt & Company, 2007
Frog's Diary: A Year in My Life. Steve Parker. Armadillo, 2016.
The Matchbox Diary. Paul Fleischman. Illustrated by Bagram Ibatouline. Candlewick Press, 2016
Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-Up. Melissa Thompson. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2009
Blogs and Sharing Student Writing Online
From Analogy to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience, EdSurge (September 26, 2017)
Writing for an Audience Beyond the Teacher: 10 Reasons to Send Student Work Out into the World, New York Times Learning Network (November 15, 2018)
Out of the Classroom and into the World: 70-Plus Places to Publish Teenage Writing and Art, New York Times Learning Network (April 19, 2019)
The Benefits of Sharing Student Work on Online Spaces, KQED (May 17, 2016)
Sharing Student Work, Online Network of Educators (August 9, 2018)
Regardless of whether your students’ works are protect by FERPA or copyright or both, it is essential to get permission from students (and families) before sharing their work.
One way to do this is to have students (and families) fill out a form before you share their work and retain the responses to this form
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