Posted in Blogging, Technology on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
First let me say, “No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth.” As you know, blogging takes time and there are days that my real job, my husband (who has just taken on a bi-vocational pastor’s position), my two children, and my National Board Ceritification process just take all that I have [...]
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Posted in Blogging on Nov 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
I haven’t acknowledged my school’s bloggers for a while. When the school year began and I started to promote blogging to our teachers, I was able to put the spotlight on each teacher as they began their blog. Then, the bloggers came on fast and furious. I couldn’t keep up! So, here today I’m going [...]
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Posted in Blogging on Sep 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
In my last post, I lamented the fact that neither kindergarten nor first grade had a blog going. I warned them that I was targeting them next. Well, lo and behold, I have THREE new blogs to share today. Two of the kindergarten teachers met with me and we set up their blogs. Then one [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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