It’s No Longer My Blog (And That’s a Good Thing!)

I’ve been writing lately about our first elementary blogging project at my school. Because this was our first attempt, I’ve been very hands-on. I have been teaching the lessons while the teacher assists both in class and by tracking down permission forms. We scheduled one extra lap visit per week so I could teach the […]

February 20th, 2008 | Category: blogging | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Kids, Comments, ClustrMaps and Clocks

On Monday the third graders were exuberant in their delight at finding comments on their blogs. At the start of class I reviewed how to find their post using the category list, and then how to open their comments.

I warned them that the teachers who visited their blogs over the weekend might never […]

February 20th, 2008 | Category: blogging, learnerblogs | One comment - (Comments are closed)

The Kindness of Twitter Friends – or- My PLN Saves the Day Again

All but four of the third graders have published their first blog post. They are eagerly awaiting comments. Unfortunately, I know that the person coordinating the project in Bangkok has been out of town, and our Pennsylvania group hadn’t started blogging, so our blog pals would not be visiting our site for a while yet.

[…]

February 17th, 2008 | Category: blogging, learnerblogs, | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Overcoming Commenting Problems with Learnerblogs

Last week our third graders published their first blog posts. Then they visited our blog pals site and started leaving comments. After I modeled how to leave a comment, they were very eager to begin, (and very intrigued with the need to type the code they saw in the comment box to prove that they […]

February 17th, 2008 | Category: blogging, learnerblogs | Comments are closed
« Newer Entries