On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
Blogging in the Classroom
1. Blogging in the Classroom
Authentic Writing for an Authentic Audience
Tracy Kriese and Lorie Schoch
West Ridge Middle School
Eanes ISD
2016 TCTELA Conference
Austin, Texas
4. Why do we blog with students?
• to affirm the unique voice of each writer
• to help each writer grow in confidence
and ability
• to practice skills and principles of digital literacy
• to provide authentic revising and editing
opportunities
• to connect with authentic audiences and
contribute to a wider community
11. The study of mentor texts inspires student writing:
12. The prologue to Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park
influenced both of these students, one in her fiction
writing and the other in her personal expressive writing.
22. With the teacher no longer the
overly predominant active reader
and responder of student texts,
students, as a community, take more
ownership of their writing.
--Charles Lowe and Terra Williams
Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom