What is the essence of the photo-blog? Is it the photo, or the blog, or something else that is created by putting the two together?
My 10th-graders created photographs to respresent the concept of "Self-Reliance" in response to Emerson's essay and after following the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Then they honed their own ideas in relation to the pictures at "A Month (Almost) of Self-Reliance." What is this thing that they have created that is part reflection, part commentary, part artistic inspiration? What are the skills they are learning? Writing (short) for the web, connecting images and ideas, collaboration (they worked in pairs), selection and critical thinking, interpreting, communicating. What are they learning about themselves?
