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We merged several earlier blogging projects. We have found that there are many advantages to bringing students together in one site that lives beyond any particular class. It’s easier for individual students to read and write about their own passions, to connect with other students, comment on each other’s work, and create multimedia posts for each other. Further, it’s been exciting for us to pool our knowledge about curriculum, connected learning, and digital literacies.
There are over 8,000 posts and over 13,000 comments by young people on the site on topics as diverse as the American Dream, Shakespeare, and sports as well as original poems and stories.
Youth Voices is a platform for youth to write about their interests, both in school and outside of school: what they are reading, what their hobbies or future careers might be, what they enjoy in their spare time. Like all of us, students follow our national leadership and form opinions. They are also welcome to write about those topics as well.
Youth Voices is fully non-partisan and welcomes youth of all types, from all regions, and with all viewpoints. Educators support youth in writing and thoughtfully responding to each other through the use of commenting guides, using tags to show common interests, playlists to support self-guided inquiry; opinions expressed by writers are their own.
If being part of such a community makes sense to you, we invite you to join us. We welcome all youth and any teacher interested in having students publish online and participate in the give and take of a social network like Youth Voices.
Youth Voices is an open publishing platform for youth. The site is organized by teachers with support from the National Writing Project. Opinions expressed by writers are their own.
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Dear Orlando,
I am really proud of you about the beat you made because not everyone has the talent you have when it comes to making beats.
(video/painting/drawing/photograph/collage/work of art/music, called “RPG300,”
Because most people would love to know how to make beats like you.
One part of your song that stands out for me is
Where you start changing the flow of the beats, instead of keeping it one way you tried something new and that’s really fun to do.
I think this is important because if you really take it seriously you might achieve something out of it one day.
Another part that I enjoyed is where you came in smoove when the beat volume was low and the way it came back up loud and smoove. This stood out for me
Because I just learned something from you it might help me one day if I wanna make beats.
Your beats reminds me of something that I made
once. One time I tried to make beats on my iphone with an app called garageband but I failed.
Thanks for your beats I look forward to seeing what
you make next, because you really have a great talent.
Best wishes with your art,
(Idrissa Sylla )