Blog #2

As I read Amber Miller's blog, I also liked the fact that Dr. Bishop stresses that literacy classes be safe and nurturing spaces, and that we should work together to create a supportive learning environment where good written and oral communication can flourish. I also thought that The Elizabethtown project seems very interesting to me and I have never done anything like that just as Melinda Hudson did.

When reading "Writing to learn across the curriculum: Tools for comprehension in content area classes", I found some interesting ways of having students to write rather than just giving them paper and expecting them to write. I also feel that this activities for them to do are the most important ideas I got from the article. I enjoyed the technology TED this week, I went outside to listen to all the different sounds around me and it made me come to a reality check that I need to pay attention to the things around me more instead of always being on my cell phone. You could use this technology with art by having the students to draw the things they hear, you could also use math by having the students come up with a word problem talking about the different things around them and for adding and subtracting. The thing that stood the most to me was in the reading when they were giving us all the ways to use writing because I absolutely hate writing but if my teachers would have known about these different ways to use writing when I was coming through school then I might have a different look towards writing. I believe that the way that students look at writing is base on how well the teacher teaches the subject and by giving the students feedback and having the students give feedback to one another. One question comes to my mind after reading this and it is why didn't my teachers do these different ways to show us how to write? Have these concepts been around and my school just didn't know or are they somewhat new?

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