As my digital literacy unit draws to a close, I am able to have a look at what I managed to achieve with my students in 6 weeks. It became evident that those students whose literacy skills were more advanced were easily able to progress themselves and flourished with the blogging. The students who were already struggling with the language continued to struggle, but when they did make a blog post, the comments from other teachers reading them made their eyes positively light up, and they tried that much harder knowing that people were reading and caring.
This response is worth so much that I mind a little less that I had to miss out on so many components that I wanted to teach!
This response is worth so much that I mind a little less that I had to miss out on so many components that I wanted to teach!