Hallelujah! The Inauguration. At Last!

What an interesting series of paintings! The New York Times posted this on their web site: "The Inauguration. At Last"--a lovely artistic journal of one participant's impressions upon attending the inauguration on January 20th. What strikes me is the spareness of the language she uses, as if she were writing poetry and then illustrating it with her own small journal sketches. How would you use this in your class? Is it possible that this kind of journal keeping could help model reflections that include the use of multi-media like this?

Take 20: Writing Teachers Talk about Teaching Writing

Here's an interesting video entitled Take 20: Writing Teachers Talk about Teaching Writing. In these interviews, nationally known writing teachers give their views on a number of topics about their approaches to writing. As you listen to their answers, think about their relevance to the kind of teaching you'll be doing. How would you answer these questions?

Welcome to Celebrating Writing

Welcome to Celebrating Writing K-12, a blog for EDUC 412, Teaching Writing K-12. Through this blog, you are invited to share your curiosity and discoveries about writing and teaching in general. Instead of writing to a limited audience of a teacher, you're invited to write to your peers as well. Each week, we will trade off in hosting the blog, in posting an entry, and in facilitating a discussion on the blog.

Here as an example of what you might post for a topic of discussion is a YouTube video entitled "Worth Celebrating." This is a fascinating account of a writing celebration, where students display and explain their ethnographic research into the various literacies of their communities.


What do you think? What possibilities do you see for the kinds of writing assignments and celebrations your students might do?