Comments on: How To Find An Authentic Audience For Your Students’ Work

By: Kathleen Morris

Kathleen Morris — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:55:10 +0000

Hi Randy,
What a wonderful anecdote about your students’ first experiences with blogging! It really is so important and so powerful. A great start is to also have teachers publishing for an authentic audience (like you do) to be a role model for students.
Thanks for taking the time to comment!

By: Randy Rodgers

Randy Rodgers — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:26:52 +0000

Good tips, Kathleen–thanks for the hard work! Personally, I could not emphasize enough the importance of sharing with your PLN, reaching out to experts, and the like. So many of our students are active on social media, publish videos to a global audience, etc. that classmates, families, or teachers really aren’t powerful or even authentic enough. I remember many moons ago talking to 4th graders about their first experiences publishing writing on this new thing called a class blog. They marveled and celebrated as the visitor tracking plugin showed dots from every continent (except Antarctica, which they desperately wanted). People they didn’t know were reading their work, and they were pumped! It affected quality, too–one girl told me, “I have to do my best, because even the president might read this!”

By: Kathleen Morris

Kathleen Morris — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 01:38:20 +0000

In reply to Kirsty. That's great, Kirsty! Start small and you never know where you could end up! :)

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:16:08 +0000

Really interesting article. You have encouraged me to spend more time getting my own class’s blog up and running again this year.