Ohm's Blogging Learning Story

Learner: Ohm                           Learning Coach:  DWilkes                        Date: Term 4

Learning Area: Literacy

Learning Observed

Ohm began blogging shortly after he became a learner at OrmPS.  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’ in Term 2 and Term 3 so Ohm is still developing his capability to do this on his classmates blogs and thus is beginning to connect authentically with other learners.  Ohms 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 posts which enhances their readability.  Ohm 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 his posts since she started blogging to see how his capability at writing for an audience is improving. His most recent post, when he took Cooper the Kea hapu group mascot home was one of his best as it is his longest and most detailed post to date.  Many of his posts demonstrate his passion, values and sense of adventure.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write posts using a range of styles- including contrasts which are highly engaging write blog posts over the holidays with family and continue to visit classmates blogs to leave comments. label or ‘tag’ each post so they are searchable in the future 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 posts write comments on every learning story his Learning Coaches post ensure images are licensed for reuse (creative commons copyright)