Thing 1 and Thing 2

I am participating in 23 Things because I am conducting an experiment this summer. My goal is to increase summer reading participation and to promote authentic reading and sustained reflection on reading. I have maintained a book club blog (tnbookclub.blogspot.com) that has pretty much flopped. I tried to use the blog medium to post questions and excerpts and students did not really respond to these prompts. I am trying a new approach by employing wiziq to be present online multiple times a week and provide a context and some resources for the books that our students are reading. I am hoping to stumble upon a method for balancing freedom and structure: I think students need the freedom to discover and the boundaries to linger/loiter long enough in one place to realize that discovery is afoot . Knowing that many/some people could potentially read this blog does not make me self-conscious (though I am trying to be better about typos). The blog remains an online diary until someoe engages me in conversation. This blog is helping me document my efforts to add substance to form. I subscribe to the very trendy notion that education should nurture a culture of evidence and a culture of mastery.