First Lessons Learned in Moodle

Day one of Moodling was a success. I assigned my students the following tasks:

Log in Go into the Journal course so you can write back to me in your journal Go into the Science course and take the quiz Go into the forum and tell us what you are looking forward to doing on […]

Moodling Around

My Moodle is finally ready to use. I decided to get my feet wet by having student journals in Moodle. In years gone by, one way I would get to know my students while also getting them to write was to journal with them. They each had a notebook and we’d write back and forth. […]

Little Bits of Blogging

Our student blog is underway! Pairs of students are taking turns writing a summary of our day and posting it on our class blogmeister blog.

We began last Thursday. We went into the computer lab and first we visited the Super Students Blog. It is an excellent 5th grade blog written by Ms. Sanborn’s class […]

My ID…

When I first created this blog, I wasn’t sure if I could include personal information that would identify my school because I wasn’t sure how the student blogs would interact with it. To protect their personal information, I didn’t share mine. I was also a bit leery of giving away personal information in the blogosphere; […]

Back to Blogging with Kids–Almost!

After all my deliberating about how to get student blogs approved, I may have come in through the back door.

The families of the students I teach are wanting more communication from school and are frustrated that some of their children are not yet using their plan books to write down all their assignments. To […]

Another Blog that Keeps Stretching Me

Today John Pederson challenges us to share a blogger we are reading who is challenging our thinking and worthy of a little more attention from the blogosphere.

One of my entries in this category is blog of proximal development. I don’t hear it mentioned often, but it usually gives me good food for thought. The […]