Stephanie Teitelbaum's reflection of her experience with her fourth graders and quad blogging.

1. Improving Student Writing through
Blogging
Stephanie Teitelbaum & Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

2. Action Research

3. Pre-
Assessment

6. Week One-
Commenting on Thailand’s Posts
Before:

7. Week One-
Commenting on Thailand’s Posts
After:
After:

8. Week One-
Commenting on Thailand’s Posts
Before:efore:

9. Week One-
Commenting on Thailand’s Posts
After:er:

10. Observations

11. Week Two-
Commenting on Czech Republic’s Posts
Challenges:
Frustration among students
Difficulty making connections
Few choices of posts

12. Week Two-
Process
How did we address
Smartboard this problem?
Individual Conferencing
Guest Speaker

13. Expert Commenter

14. Expert Commenter
ADD VIDEO FOOTAGE FROM POP POP STAN

15. Week Three-
Commenting on Switzerland’s Posts

16. Week Four
Our Week to Blog

17. Week Four

18. The students were so incredibly excited to write for a large
audience.
They received 7-9 comments a day. They were anxious to

19. Students’ Work

20. More examples…
My Personal Assistant For A Week by: Zachary
In class we have an assignment that we get to choose an
assistant for a week. The names that we could choose are
William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, Socrates, Benjamin
Franklin, and Steve Jobs. I chose Steve Jobs because, he
can give me a lot of stuff from Apple headquarters. He
could give me an iPad3 and he can give me an iphone5.
Steve Jobs can get me to work for Apple and he could pay
me a lot of money. The projects that Steve Jobs can do for
me is to make an Ipad4s, Iphone5s, and a iPod touch with
siri. I love Steve Jobs because he is a great person and he
invented stuff that I have. That’s my personal assistant for
a week. Who would you choose? What project would they
work on?

22. More Reflections

23. The World is our limit
Quad Blog with other Jewish Day Schools around the world…
Quad Blog with other FCIS schools…
My Reflection