Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Welcome to Our Discussion Blog

Hello and welcome to our space where we can discuss the book Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice. The book has a Study Guide that can be downloaded here. You may find this helpful as we go through the book. I set this up using Google Blogger - it is very user-friendly (I believe the geek term is intuitive), so you should find posting easy once you go through it the first time. Since this is a collaborative site, you all have posting privileges. This means that any one of us can start the discussion with a post. Once a post about a chapter is up, then the rest of us can follow up with either a post that expands on the chapter (for longer responses) or a comment (for a short response) . Don't be leery of trying things with this blog space - the other part to this is for you to get comfortable with blogging so that eventually you can find ways to use the technology with your students. The best way to do this is to jump in and give it a try.

So here we go. I'll start the first post, then we'll take turns with other chapters.

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