"All right, today we are going to work on posting
our blog for sushi.
We are going to something a little bit different
today which is I want you guys to focus on
that actual narrative portion of your blog
not so much the content or the recipe because
we didn't have one, it was done by a demo."
Today the students were creating a blog based
on their experience of making sushi.
We had a guest from the Northwest Culinary
Institute come in and demonstrate how to make
sushi and then the students got make sushi.
Today was their opportunity to post that process
on their personal blog.
The whole point of doing this was to learn
real world skills.
Be being able to blog,
being able to use different programs and formatting
pictures and text and all of that stuff, it's
not just about the food, it's about learning
stuff that we will need for jobs and careers
and homework and other classes and all that
stuff so it's a lot of different things put
together.
"Why is it important to for your personality
to come through?
We talked about it.
It drives readership, right?
Assuming we are creating this so people will
read it, because the more people who read it,
the more ads you
get on your page, the more ads you get on
your page, the more money you make.
Right?
How are you going to try to put that into
your blog?"
"I don't know, put, like talk about it the way I would talk about it, like the fun
I had making the sushi."
"Did you have fun making the sushi?'
"I think I did.
It looked good."
So I think my blog has like 70 some page
views and I've got like two or three followers
so I have people from the United States, mainly
there, and I've got a few in the U.K. and
a couple in like Austria I think, so it's really rewarding
knowing that people all over the world are
interested in what I'm doing.
We are always looking for, you know, the actual
student opinion or the actual student learning,
But in this instance, really it's most important
to have the student explaining their process,
their journey, that is what a blog should
be about, first of all.
So that's important for the medium we are
using, also, it shows me that they can reflect
and can be intrinsic with what they learned.
"So from here you can copy and out them in?
You guys did good on your pictures.
You have lots."
"Thank you."
The students are benefiting from it.
They are learning as they go.
They are able to help each other trouble shoot
all the small pieces that we couldn't get
through last year and now even more so focus
on the content instead of the process.
So the writing that we do on the blogs is
a lot more explaining.
It's not just like making up a story or just
talking about a subject so its teaching instead
of telling a story so I really like that part
of it.
