HOT Blogging: Using Blogs to Support Higher Order Thinking Skills

Presenters: Lisa Zawilinski and Donald Leu
Date: February 3, 2010
Time: 5:00-6:00 p.m. Eastern
Level: Elementary

Have you ever considered blogging with your students but weren't sure where to begin? During this Web seminar, participants will discover why integrating reading and writing on the Internet is important. Next, they will learn how elementary classroom teachers are currently using blogs with students. Additionally, free blogging resources and steps for beginning a classroom blog will be shared. Presenters will then provide a framework for how to use blogs to teach higher order thinking skills like analysis, evaluation, and synthesis. Participants will leave the webinar with the necessary resources and ideas to begin blogging with their students or the skills to step up their current blogging practices to include higher order thinking skills.

Examples in this webinar will focus on elementary classrooms, but the blogging skills shared can be used through high school.

Can't attend? Click here to access the On Demand version of Lisa Zawilinski and Donald Leu's Web seminar.

Lisa Zawilinski is a Neag Fellow, doctoral candidate, and researcher with the New Literacies Research Lab at the University of Connecticut. She is most interested in effective communication on the Internet. Lisa is a former codirector of the Connecticut Writing Project and has taught and provided professional development for more than 15 years.

Donald J. Leu is the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology and the director of the New Literacies Research Lab at the University of Connecticut. He has degrees from Michigan State University (B.A.), Harvard University (Ed.M.), and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.). He is a past president of the National Reading Conference, a member of the board of directors of the International Reading Association, and was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame. He conducts research on new literacies.

Grade Level(s): Elementary