Rahi's Blog Writing learning story

Learners: Rahi                                                                      Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: Literacy     Vision Principle: Capable & Connected         Date: Term 3&4

Learning Observed

Rahi began blogging in Term 3.  His blog has various posts on a diverse range of topics and he also has a number of comments from his blog buddy and other classmates.  We spent time learning to write quality comments using a ‘comment sandwich’ and Rahi is developing his capability to do this on his blog buddy’s blog and thus can connect authentically with other learners.  Rahi’s posts are evidence of how he connects with the things in which he enjoys, whether at home or at school.  He has learned to embed images into his posts which enhance their readability.  Rahi has enjoyed reading our Learning Habitat 1 blog as well and has collaborated to construct some posts with his hapu group.  It has been fantastic to review Rahi’s posts since the beginning of term 3 to see how his capability at writing is improving. Some posts of interest were his ‘Adventure with Champ’,  ‘Minecraft’ and ‘Call of Duty’ (I believe this is rated Teen) posts because his passion and sense of adventure are evident. He regularly blogs about football and we all know how much he loves this sport! I would now encourage Rahi to co-construct blog posts over the holidays with his family and continue to visit his classmates blogs and leave comments.

Evidence of learning

Link to Rahi’s Blog : http://rahi4k8fn.blogspot.co.nz/

Next Learning Steps

label or ‘tag’ each post so they are searchable in the future preview the post before publishing to ensure the images are the most appropriate size proofread each post by reading it out loud, to a buddy at school or a parent at home to develop capabilities at catching punctuation and grammatical errors ensure the quantity and quality of each post are up to standard (aiming for a minimum of 6 quality sentences) continue to practice using the comment sandwich to provide feed forward to classmates respond to comments on his post write comments on every learning story his Learning Coaches post ensure images are licensed for reuse (creative commons copyright)