This post introduces the webblog (website and blog) which is the umbrella of all projects in this critical thinking classroom.
http://instructors.sbcc.edu/bacchus/sohp/diaspora/
The webblog is dedicated to collecting the oral histories of women. In a critical reading/writing classroom these stories are used as a bridge to writing the academic/expository essay. Students learn critical thinking skills; they learn to form critical thinking questions; they become aware of social issues and focus on social justice. The theme is voicelessness; students become aware of what this means; they become aware of multiple violences; they learn to use dialogue to convey their ideas, to build new ideas, and to contemplate solutions.
The blog is where students upload their stories and on the right is a list of teacher generated examples of what students can produce.
http://sohp.blogspot.com/2009/09/gathering-of-indigenous-womens-voices.html
The student instructions on this webblog are now in four languages (Spanish, French, Portugese, and English) and more will be added.
http://instructors.sbcc.edu/bacchus/sohp/diaspora/essaywriting.html














The Blog experiment in an English 103 classroom.
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