Comments for Lou http://blogs.norcalwp.org/lburan My work with the Northern California Writing Project Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:44:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Student Collaboration by rramay http://blogs.norcalwp.org/lburan/2008/09/20/student-collaboration/comment-page-1/#comment-5 rramay Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:44:02 +0000 http://blogs.norcalwp.org/lburan/?p=8#comment-5 Lou, this approach sounds good and I look forward to borrowing it. I especially appreciate your fore grounding of the template. I agree that the work from chapter 4 makes some heavy assumptions about the students giving the responses, but I think high schoolers can become equally invested in helping their classmates. Tomorrow my students are completing a first draft of their first essay. I plan to collect them, and try to give them some initial response, but I'm already fretting about the time it's going to take to follow through. I'm going to craft SOMETHING between now and tomorrow afternoon... Lou, this approach sounds good and I look forward to borrowing it. I especially appreciate your fore grounding of the template. I agree that the work from chapter 4 makes some heavy assumptions about the students giving the responses, but I think high schoolers can become equally invested in helping their classmates.

Tomorrow my students are completing a first draft of their first essay. I plan to collect them, and try to give them some initial response, but I’m already fretting about the time it’s going to take to follow through. I’m going to craft SOMETHING between now and tomorrow afternoon…

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]]> Comment on Formatting Frustration by pkittle http://blogs.norcalwp.org/lburan/2008/07/03/formatting-frustration/comment-page-1/#comment-3 pkittle Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:06:53 +0000 http://blogs.norcalwp.org/lburan/?p=6#comment-3 Even though this flagged on my bloglines a couple weeks ago, I just got around to reading this, Lou. I think that this might fit under a larger umbrella of "presentation" (or some other term, perhaps) that--like diction--is really critical for any writer to consider when composing. I wonder if the whole texting thing could be used productively in this discussion; the lack of capitals, short length, and so on are because of the limitations of the devices as much as the writer's sloppiness. That is, there's an exigence (crappy little keyboards, number of characters allowed by sms, etc.) that drives the particular presentation of text messages, and the exigence of producing USPS-ready labels doesn't require <b>better</b> but <b><i>different</i></b> formatting. Keep thinking about this, and let us all know what happens in your classes with this. It's an important idea. Even though this flagged on my bloglines a couple weeks ago, I just got around to reading this, Lou. I think that this might fit under a larger umbrella of “presentation” (or some other term, perhaps) that–like diction–is really critical for any writer to consider when composing. I wonder if the whole texting thing could be used productively in this discussion; the lack of capitals, short length, and so on are because of the limitations of the devices as much as the writer’s sloppiness. That is, there’s an exigence (crappy little keyboards, number of characters allowed by sms, etc.) that drives the particular presentation of text messages, and the exigence of producing USPS-ready labels doesn’t require better but different formatting.

Keep thinking about this, and let us all know what happens in your classes with this. It’s an important idea.

]]> Comment on What the Summer Institute Means to Me by lynnjake http://blogs.norcalwp.org/lburan/2008/06/18/what-the-summer-institute-means-to-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2 lynnjake Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:51:54 +0000 http://blogs.norcalwp.org/lburan/?p=3#comment-2 I agree with you about questioning as part of a presentation. It makes the whole process richer, both for the presenter and the participants. I think we gain so much as teachers when we approach our work from a stance of inquiry. I'm looking forward to your presentation today. I agree with you about questioning as part of a presentation. It makes the whole process richer, both for the presenter and the participants. I think we gain so much as teachers when we approach our work from a stance of inquiry. I’m looking forward to your presentation today.

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