Absolutely fascinating. My daughter just 'graduated' kindergarten, and on the last day the teacher gave each student a collection of their year's work in a binder. This showed the progress she made in writing and comprehension, photos of moments during the school year, artwork completed, and had a calendar accompanying it. The students' blogs on the Russell Street School site seemed to do exactly that- they chronicled the school year individually, while the class blog chronicled the school year as a group. This is a far superior method of chronicling the year, with the ability to quickly navigate about the year and the ability to include video representations of what happened. Helen's blog had a video on 'showing integrity' that was an assignment done using iMovie and was adorable, but useful. Feedback was given all throughout the students' blogs directly after posts, mostly in a positive fashion.
I found this blogging methodology this school is using to be captivating, both as a parent and a teacher.
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