Once again we are coming to the end of a rich and productive semester on Reading Improvement Through Written Expression. And once again I am wondering what will happen to these teacher-writers and teachers of writing/reading? Will they continue to practice these habits of engaged (epistemic) reading and writing that they have developed and honed over the semester? Will they continue to search out materials based on interest AND GENRE to read? Will they continue to add to, revise, reshape, re-see their genre pieces? their course blogs or their course portfolio? Or will these works be truly finished because they will be abandoned....?
I wish there was some way to keep the writing community alive, even without the requirements of class. Could students be "visitors" next semester? Would they be willing to serve as part of our virtual community? Responding to students' blogs? Would the new group of students be willing to give access to these "618 graduates?" Or would they also feel as at least one of the students this semester remarked "overly concerned about what they will feel free to write if they know their classmates are reading...."
Oh dear, I just realized there is only five minutes left of class.. Why does time fly so when we are having such fun?
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