1. Growing Posts
Another journey into 21st Century Learning

2. If you have Scribe Posts a student usually blogs once
every 30 classes.

3. As a subject area teacher I wanted them to post
more often.

4. Enter the Growing Post

5. Good for multi-subject teacher
Original image: 'Focus'
www.flickr.com/photos/26406919@N00/793748095
by: Nic McPhee

6. Why Growing Posts?
All work is in 1 Blog Post instead of many posts.

7. Blog provides a canvas for the learners to create.

8. Teach
Class Subject Content

9. While teaching how to integrate 2.0 technologies.

10. Connection between students

11. Creating an audience

12. These are Growing Posts

13. Using a Growing post like a Math Notebook

14. Growing Post Instructions

16. Using images to convey meaning

18. This post was created 2 years ago.

19. Building Connections

20. Fraction Growing Posts

21. Students leaving comments on other Growing Posts

25. Second Generation Growing Posts
Percent Growing Post 2006

32. Time Period
You can assign a question a day.

33. You can assign the entire Growing Post as one assignment.

34. Students prefer to do the work at home.
Their computers are often better than those at
school.

35. Types of Applications one could use/teach in
Growing Posts

36. How to embed videos

37. How to add sound

38. How to use bubbleshare

39. How to use voicethread

40. or anything at
studentblogwikitools.wikispaces.com

41. Alan Levine’s 50 tools to tell a story.

42. Assessment

43. Student self-evaluation
http://flickr.com/photos/njhdiver/445254121/

44. Peer Evaluation

45. Teacher Evaluation

46. Sample Marking Rubric

49. More information on Growing posts can be found
At Release the Hounds