Margaret's Blog Writing Learning Story

Learners: Margaret                                                                    Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: Literacy     Vision Principle: Capable & Connected         Date: Term 3&4

Learning Observed

Margaret began blogging in Term 4 shortly after she became a learner at OrmPS.  Her blog has various posts on a diverse range of topics and she also has a number of comments from her blog buddy and other classmates.  We spent time learning to write quality comments using a ‘comment sandwich’ so Margaret is still developing her capability to do this on her classmates blogs and thus is beginning to connect authentically with other learners.  Margaret’s posts are evidence of how she connects with the things in which she enjoys, whether at home or at school.  She has learned to embed images into posts which enhances their readability.  Margaret has enjoyed reading our Learning Habitat 1 blog as well and has collaborated to construct some posts with her hapu group.  It has been fantastic to review her posts since she started blogging to see how her capability at writing for an audience is improving. Some posts of interest were her ‘7 Wonders of the World’,  ‘Identity’ and ‘7 Steps to being Capable’ posts because her passion, values and sense of adventure are evident. She regularly blogs and uses a range of styles- including contrasts which are highly engaging.  I would now encourage Margaret to continue her learning by writing blog posts over the holidays with her family and continue to visit classmates blogs to leave comments.

Evidence of learning

Link to Margaret’s Blog : http://margaret4ps4b.blogspot.co.nz/

Next Learning Steps

label or ‘tag’ each post so they are searchable in the future preview the post before publishing to ensure the images are the most appropriate size proofread each post by reading it out loud, to a buddy at school or a parent at home to develop capabilities at catching punctuation and grammatical errors ensure the quantity and quality of each post are up to standard (aiming for a minimum of 6 quality sentences) continue to practice using the comment sandwich to provide feed forward to classmates respond to comments on her posts write comments on every learning story her Learning Coaches post ensure images are licensed for reuse (creative commons copyright)