Mastery

To truly benefit from the High Yield Strategies achievable through blogging, students need to "buy in" to the process. According to Daniel Pink, author of Drive, people need to have **Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose** to be intrinsically motivated.

=Gradual Release Will Ensure __Mastery__!=

Moving from Teacher Directed to Student Centred



Progressing through steps for learning a language: Listening / Speaking / Reading / Writing

-start noticing how blog comments are formed and develop **success criteria** as a class
 * Listening/Viewing** - discuss what a blog is, watch videos (activate/develop background knowledge)
 * Speaking** - reflect on blogging videos, discuss purpose of having a class blog (encourage "buy in")
 * Reading**- visit and do (Modelled / Shared / Guided / Independent) Reading of other class blogs or blogs of interest,

--->Before progressing any further you will want to set up overall guidelines for blogging with your class and share them with parents

(You may even want to start "old school" and have the students use sticky notes to get the hang of it. Get ideas here.) -later you will have students writing their own Posts (using class created success criteria and peer and self assessment)
 * Writing** - have students start by writing Comments on a teacher-created post (descriptive feedback given separately - e.g.Edmodo)

Gradual Release for Comments: Teacher **Models** Comment Writing / **Shared** Comments / **Guided** Comments (written with a partner to respond to a teacher post, using success criteria) / **Independent** Writing of "Quality" comments

Gradual Release for Posts: Teacher **Models** then **Shares** the Writing of a Post / Students write **Guided** Posts in pairs or small groups (*as guests, then on their own account as "contributors") / Students do **Independent** Writing of solo blog posts when ready (and possibly progress to having their own blogs)

Writing Process for Blog Posts Have students consider R.A.F.T. (Role, Audience, Form, Topic) to incorporate Higher Order Thinking Skills.

Plan / Draft / Revise / Edit / Publish

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 * Plan** - can use paper/pencil, word processor, work space on blogging platform or online graphic organizer
 * Draft** - use the "new post" space in the dashboard,
 * Revise**- have students use success criteria, read their work aloud to a partner who can't see the text, have it "read" to them (Kurzweil, Mac Speech, WordQ3 - note: Ontario students have take home rights to WQ3 - ask your I.T. department for the student activation key to use at: [])
 * Edit** - use an editing checklist developed by the class, be sure to use spell check in dashboard
 * Publish** - submit to the teacher for review - you will see "Pending" instead of "Draft" in your dashboard when work is handed in.