I do my best thinking in the shower and in my dreams. The title for my blog came to me in a dream. I had been thinking for awhile about starting a teaching blog. When my husband and I started our adoption process a few years ago, I started a personal blog. I made some of my closest adoptive mom friends through that blog while also honing my writing skills. That blog dissipated for various reasons, but I found myself missing the blogging experience, the intentional audience and purpose. For the past few years I've had my College Composition students create their own personal blogs, and this fall I decided I needed to blog with them. But what to call it? Titles and names are, after all, very important. And then my dream. I had a teaching blog called Teach Happy. It fit my teaching philosophy, and it was simple. So here I am. My idea for #WWWW came in the shower. My grandfather had just died, and I was thinking of family memories I would like to capture in writing. (He had a way of saying, "Well, Kim!" that made me feel like the only person in the room.) I was lamenting the fact that I rarely get time to write for myself while being a full-time teacher and a full-time mom. I soon realized that my students probably feel the same way. While I provide lots of choice in terms of genre and topic, students rarely get complete freedom with their writing. "Why not give it to them?" I thought. They can still achieve academic objectives through this writing, and maybe, just maybe, they will learn to enjoy it a bit more. So Write Whatcha Want Wednesday (#WWWW) was born. Each student has created and designed his/her own blog. Students are blogging about sports, music interests, pet peeves, and random teenage drama. It's authentic writing for an authentic audience, and we would love for you to join us. I'll soon share some of their links here. Join us in the #WWWW movement. Let's get our hashtag trending!
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