Next on the List

Despite our progress on this blogging project, our to-do list is still growing…

Ensemble is being quirky. It opens and starts its downloads, and then crashes. I’ll try dumping the preferences and repairing permissions on this computer AGAIN. Jabiz still needs to insert the sidebar of blog addresses into each blog’s template. This will make […]

Signs of Progress

Signs of progress are springing up everywhere…

1. We now have a Schoolnotes page set up as a front page to our blogs. We can send that address to our student participants and to the group of teachers who have volunteered to spend 15 minutes per month responding to student blogs.

2. Tammy and I […]

Soggy Blogger Heads for the Islands

Our student bloggers were off on a special event, and I am still dealing with plumbers who aren’t dealing with my soggy bathroom, so I’ve been off my blog for a few days.

And now I’m heading for Tioman Island, the lovely spot where “South Pacific” was filmed, for a few days of snorkeling and […]

They’ve Blogged!

It’s happened.Three of our students have blogged!The rest are writing away, most with great seriousness of purpose.I am delighted with the variety of topics being addressed, the care they are taking with their writing, and their willingness to conference.

Tammy, Jabiz and I were all conferencing with students in the lab today, so I haven’t […]

Koi Pond Blogging Dilemma

Big plans for my prep time today. I wanted to finish the blogging rubric, set up newsreader on Tammy’s computer, and do a bunch of work for the rest of my job (–What? This blogging project isn’t my entire job?)

However, water is pushing up between the tiles of the bathroom floor here in my […]

Those Blogging Beginners!

This morning, Tammy taught a lesson on ideas. She worked with the idea of a funnel. For example, the topic of Canada is too broad for a post, so narrow it down to a particular focus within that broad topic. As part of the lesson, her students identified the focus of their blog. By the […]