After reading the "Authentic Audience' article, I began to see the value in publishing student work online. I had never before thought of the fact that students spend weeks, months, and even years working on a paper, article, or thesis that will only be read by one person. It seems like a great deal of work to only be viewed by one person. I like the idea of sharing published work on the blogs and wikis listed in the article.
I agree that it takes even more courage to publish work through Facebook. By posting on a blog or wiki, you are able to post anonymously, which protects your from potential criticism. Facebook requires you to take ownership of your work and share it with people who know and care about you. I think this would be a great way to share student assignments with the class and with parents. Parents do not necessarily get to see every writing piece students produce in the classroom. By publishing them online, parents are able to access and see their child's work. With the right settings and parameters, I think that online publishing would even be appropriate for students in the elementary grades.
I agree and thinks it would beneficial for parents to be able to access the work of their children by viewing it online! Great idea! I think elementary students publishing work would be good too as long as it was monitored to some degree. It might even be most beneficial for those students who struggle with the actual motor process of writing.
ReplyDeleteI agree one hundred percent! I think that we have no idea of how great the benefits can be related to publishing student work. Take you-tube for example. That is self-publishing in a sense. Many people have suddenly gained fame and fortune through this media because of the audiences they have reached.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you - publication of student work could even be a primary part of parental communication. Parents can always look at the work their students are doing, but in a vacuum, that can be meaningless. When presented in conjunction with the work of their peers, parents can get a better sense of where their children stand.
ReplyDeleteAs I read through our posts in this blog, I think about the audience we are writing for. Does everyone realize that this is on a global platform now? Is everyone thinking about their writing as representing who they are? I know I always do when I'm publishing blogs, videos, and even tweets. I ask for editing help. I consider words and reconsider words. I look carefully at grammar, sentence structure, and verb tense. These things had no meaning to me when writing for a teacher, and now they make a world of difference.
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