[LIT] blogging or written conversations

[Lisa Branon]

I have had some real success with my students having a deeper conversation in their book clubs when we blog. I have had a lot of trouble maintaining one with the district's filter. It is so very frustrating. My kids are excited to talk with each other using the computer. Has anyone else used it? When the blogs were down we just passed a paper for conversation. For some reason this written form of discussing literature is so much better than the oral ones in class. I certainly know the importance of talk, but the inherent teen shyness sometimes keeps them from truly opening up with their thoughts. Writing their conversations seems to bring out the real heart felt thinking I am so dearly looking for in response to literature. Any ideas on blogging and filters?  
   
  Lisa Branon
  Reading/ Language Arts Teacher 

       
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