Here we are just doing a start up activity from our Humanities block. I give a writing prompt and students spend just a few minutes coming up with some sort of writing from that prompt. This is simply to get them thinking creatively, and realizing that anything can be an inspiration for story. The goal is not to finish the story, but to see how random ideas can be turned into something interesting and fun to read. Why I wanted to share this with netbooks, is it used to be that these would be placed maybe in a section of a binder, or in a notbook, but they had less permanence. Students are loving these prompts, and want to keep writing their stories. They are free to, and they have a good record of them to retrieve.
This is just one aspect of my students having technology. The organizational aspect is so great. We are still learning how to use it as such (I still have students with numerous unnamed documents) but that is what learning is all about. I cannot wait to have them do even more in the months to come.
This is just one aspect of my students having technology. The organizational aspect is so great. We are still learning how to use it as such (I still have students with numerous unnamed documents) but that is what learning is all about. I cannot wait to have them do even more in the months to come.