Posted in Blogging on Aug 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
Now second grade springs forth with a blog! Second grade teacher, April Shaw, approached me a week or so ago about starting a class blog. With a little bit of work, we’ve gotten it up and running! I’m so pleased to see how blogging is spreading across our campus. You can visit her class blog [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
From Ewan McIntosh’s blog post of August 17th, I learned of the launching of Animoto. Ewan stated that Animoto “provides a funky alternative way to view and listen to slideshows.” Now, I like slideshows, but in times past slideshows have taken WAAAAAY too long to create. Maybe I was just technologically impaired, but I found it [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Let me introduce you to yet another blog spawned at Watwood. Kim Smithwick has created a blog to use with her fourth grade class. Her blog’s purpose is to provide an interactive forum for her students. So far she is posting weekly questions to which her students respond. You can visit her blog at http://kimsmithwick.edublogs.org
In contrast [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Here it is - the first blog from a teacher at my school that was spawned this year from my encouragement! After a short lesson on Edublogs and setting up a blog, Emily took the bull by the horns and set up her blog over this past weekend. I’m so proud to see the effort [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
My principal is making a concerted effort this year to ensure that our faculty uses more technology in their daily repertoire of teaching strategies. So far our teachers have been given Elmo Document Cameras and projectors, as well as provided with the training to use them. I have given a crash course in APT Plus, [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 15th, 2007 No Comments »
As I ponder my “date” to help another teacher create her blog tomorrow, I am thinking of ways to get more students to blog. Of course, the first question teachers and administrators may voice is “Why blog?” Naturally we all want the experience to be educational and beneficial to our students.
I think I have discovered [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 15th, 2007 No Comments »
I spent a large amount of time creating this blog over the summer. It was one of those things that once I started, I just couldn’t stop. Even now I’m looking at it with a critical eye trying to decide how to improve upon it. So, today’s improvement was the addition of a new category. [...]
Posted in General on Aug 14th, 2007 No Comments »
While reading the 21st Century Collaborative blog a few days ago, I jealously noted that Sheryl had been tagged by the 8 Random Facts Meme. It brought back that feeling of wanting to get picked for the team out on the playground. She’d been picked and I hadn’t. Guess she was just more popular or [...]
Posted in General on Aug 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
It officially began today - the new school year. Our faculty returned today for the first of five work days before the students arrive. The summer seems to have flown by, and I can’t believe it’s time to start another year of school. I have high expectations for the year and hope to implement many [...]
