one teacher's journey » Blogs in the English classroom http://cpeppler.edublogs.org Blogging my way to better teaching... Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:16:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 maybee theyll reed there entries more carefuly now… http://cpeppler.edublogs.org/2006/07/13/maybee-theyll-reed-there-entries-more-carefuly-now/ http://cpeppler.edublogs.org/2006/07/13/maybee-theyll-reed-there-entries-more-carefuly-now/#comments Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:44:44 +0000 cpeppler http://cpeppler.edublogs.org/2006/07/13/maybee-theyll-reed-there-entries-more-carefuly-now/ For their initial post, I asked students to blog about their first blogging experience (for most of them) when they responded to my prompts about Of Mice and Men. Most of their posts were basic and marked by the typical errors I would expect. Many of them saw no benefit in blogging, and some commented that they didn’t think it would change the way they write (or right, or wright…).

Perhaps when they start getting comments back, or discover that readers beyond the classroom or building are reading their stuff, they may take an additional second or two to proof and edit their posts.

But how do you fight the pervasive attitude that web language is it’s own, and spelling and grammar (and even capitalization) are only an issue in the paper world?

Or do you?

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