Just a quick post before I forget.

I wonder if we could increase student engagement–and the depth and quality of responses to the texts, if we had students respond in literature circle blogs.

I’m not suggesting that instead of discussing in class, that they do written responses online. I’m saything that this could be done in addition to class discussion. We all know how ideas tend to percolate after discussions and this would allow students to get credit for it, and they might be more likely to buy in because it’s non-traditional, it’s interactive, and they can access it outside of school hours.

Plus, students could post their lit circle notes as pages within their blog. It would be cool because you could allow other students to access the other groups’ blogs and comment (or not if you don’t want them too) and check out what other people are saying about their novels.

I’m so psyched about this. I really want to get back into the classroom to try it.