Academic Musings & Tech for Learning

Blogging is used by many teachers… duh.. here we are at Edublogs. One very constructive collaboration that’s developed is between Prof. Lewis at the University of Regina and Kathy Cassidy, a first grade teacher in Moose Jaw SK. In the winter of 2008, Professor Lewis’s class of pre-serviceteachers became blogging mentors for Kathy Cassidy’s grade one students.

In their presentation available at http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=319, Lewis & Cassidy talk about their project and report on the results of research that was conducted about the effect this mentoring has had on the students and their writing.

Ms. Cassidy’s class blogs at http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337&l=1237330856, and she has her own blog at http://primarypreoccupation.wordpress.com/.

Another research study centered around this blog and how parents viewed it. You can read about it here: http://primarypreoccupation.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/proving-it/