This is a very interesting way to use blogs to stimulate students.
ATTENTION BLOGGERS:
Interested in developing the worldwide blogosphere? Like working with young people?
We are looking for bloggers from around the world to be a blogging mentor for 1 week sometime in February, March, April or May 2006.
The project, Young Caucasus Women, is a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). The young
women will be given a topic to blog on each week, although they are welcome to blog on any topic throughout the week.
We need bloggers to blog on a specific topic on Sunday, hence inspiring the young women's blog entries. The topic and week need to be determined at least month in advance.
Then throughout the week, the adult mentor blogger would need to comment on the young women's blog postings.
THAT'S IT - simple, yet a project with a lot of impact.
You don't need any background in the region. Just be culturally sensitive, have a topic that would be of interest to international young women and have a blog. We'd love to have English language bloggers from around the world.
Interested or know someone who is? Contact katy (at) katypearce (dot) org for more information.
Background:
There are almost NO blogs written by national individuals living IN-COUNTRY in the Caucasus. Generally blogs are written by ex-pats or diasporas. The students participating in this project are high school aged foreign exchange students currently in the US. The hope is that they will continue blogging once they return home in the summer of 2006.
The immediate aims of the project are:
To highlight the similarities and learn about the differences between young women in these neighboring countries.
To promote citizen journalism in developing countries as an alternative to mainstream media.
To promote weblogs as a method of democratic expression.
To expose young women to journalism and technology.
8 comments:
This seems to be a good idea. It gives students to interact and learn in a creative way.
Why on a Sunday?
i was here yazid baksh
Well it's a idea but I don't think I can come up with a new topic every week!
Karen Balbosa Cournand
Its a great idea where we can share our thoughts but Sunday is not a work day.
Hello and welcometo all my fellow classmates of the Multi-Media class of 2005-2006.In our pursuit of excellence and understanding I want to wish each one of you and your loved ones all best wishes in the New Year.
Anna
Even though it's a Sunday, you can participate virtually (that's part of the coolness of these tools) - so you don't have to be in the school. If Sunday is still a problem, you can write your blog post earlier and set it to publish on the Sunday.
Topics that you can post on include Trinidad and Tobago culture and news - the papers will provide lots of topics.
I recently introduced my students to blogging at the training college and they believe it will not be popular with primary school students in Trinidad.
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