So I showed a couple of my students the web site today. (I'm a dance team coach, and we have summer practices twice a week, hence the meeting with a few of my girls.) They really seemed impressed by it, though I think at first they looked at each other like, "What is this for?" I tried to explain.
"Imagine you were given ONE project to do for social studies, and the grade on that project was your grade for the entire year," I said. "That's kind of what this is."
"Whooooaa," they said. I think that put it in perspective.
I encouraged them to mess around on the site and to get back to me with their critiques next week. They asked if they could put stuff up on the site, (one of them has a project on BookSpace already--the Maximum Ride digital story), and I squealed "YES!" This is, after all, about them, not patting ourselves on the back for making a web page. I told them whatever they read this summer could be placed on the page, as long as they could come up with some technology and similar book suggestions for me to use, etc. They both encouraged me that they "would REALLY use this!", so I feel good. Really good. Like this might actually be useful and fun for 12- to 13-year-olds, not just teachers.
Phew. That's quite a load off.
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This is so encouraging and fun to hear. I couldn't agree more that our purpose in establishing BookSpace was for our students. That is awesome that your students were excited! I keep thinking about what a great tool and resource this will be to use in my classroom next year. I also reflect on last year and how my students would have totally loved getting involved with BookSpace. It will be great to implement this next year!!! I will be interested to see your students' work. It will be fun to share work across all of our classes. :)
I'm kind of excited to see how our kids relate to one another. I suspect they will be challenge themselves when they think a kid from another school will read their work.
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