This is my slide deck presentation from my #cue14 conference presentation on why you should blog with your students. It's also about why you have a responsibility to make EVERY day memorable and important.

1. The Best Audience is NOT you.
David Theriault aka @davidtEDU

2. Samantha Smith

5. Montreal
Massacre

7. Steve Hargadon ISTE 2012 San Diego

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13. JUST TRY IT

19. SHE CAN DO ANYTHING!

29. I used Google Docs/Spreadsheet to collect and organize all of their urls and logins

30. Common Core Writing
Write routinely over extended time
frames for a range of purposes and
audiences
• Examine
• Convey
• Select
• Argue
• Audience
• Task
• Purpose
• Style
Use technology to produce, publish and
update individual or shared writing

35. 4,000 views
February to May 2013

58. Share Tools: Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook

59. Is it
worth
it?I

63. Brett and Julia

64. College Readiness

65. Preparing for the SUCK...

66. “It’s past 11pm”
“I know dad I just finished my 33rd
question”
“Sorry buddy...Good Night”
“Good night...
Dad”

69. “So why are your blogs
doing well? “

70. I think everyone started making
their blog thinking “Oh well I guess
I’ll try to make it nice for the
grade”, but eventually some of us
enjoyed putting the extra effort to
make others (followers) love to
come back to our blog to keep
reading more of our thoughts.

71. Therefore, I believe the blogs that
are doing well are doing well
simply because each group and
each person are trying hard to be
recognized for being great
at blogging, even if they do not
want to admit it. “

72. “I think the blogs are doing so well
because we started to fall in love
with blogging. It’s nice to know
that some people find your
point of view interesting
and unique. Everyone nowadays
wants to be unique and try
and stand out.

73. We can post about almost
whatever we want, so we only post
things that we are passionate
and care about.

74. Making a blog isn’t a usual thing
that English classes do. Now that
we’re trying something different,
we engage much more of our time
to it because it’s interesting to
us. It helps us escape from our
regular book work from other
classes and show the public what
we’re really like.”

75. I believe that students are
motivated by the curiosity of
what response they will get when
writing a blog post”

76. We are given a lot of freedom on
what we want to write about
compared to other classes. As a
result, these posts/blogs are of a
higher quality since we know what
to write about because it’s coming
straight from our hearts.

82. New This Year

88. The I-Don’t-Know-What-To-Write-About-So-Let-Me-Just-Put-On-a-Funny-Hat Face.

89. Leftovers:
How do I deal with the workflow? That’s a lot of
reading…
What about other subjects?
What if you succeed and everyone starts doing it?
Then you know what will happen right…

90. bit.ly/davidtedublogs
@davidtEDU (Twitter)
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