Chef Thom England, CEC, at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis, IN, shared a blog his students are doing in his garde mange class. It was very cool to hear that his inspiration came out of an FELC session. The session Thom attended was on using technology and meeting the students where they are familiar which got Thom to thinking. So, instead of having the students write a paper for the class he has them do blog posts; the kids are more excited about that then writing papers. Thom also thinks it is neat because all the criteria they have is that they are to write about what they learned for the day. It has been great seeing that what they are writing about mirror my planned learning outcomes for the day.
Better still. the students have a facebook page set up for the class. They have taken turns uploading pictures from the class to the site. Interesting how this page has ignited some great discussions. One string started out when a student asked if a pizza was really a sandwich (was a quiz question that week). Twenty people chimed in on the discussion including ACF President Ty, who I didn't even know was following the page.
So check out an example of the blog at:
http://gmivytech.blogspot.com/
Perhaps these two examples will inspire you as well!
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