Bloggers Meeting -- Tuesday Dec. 7

Claire and Kristen checked out edublog.com and visited fourth grade class blogs from New Zealand and Limerick, Ireland to gather information about how they organize their blogs. They also went onto their own blog and tried to learn how to import pictures, and change fonts and color (they are still working on this!)

Unfortunately, there was a communication issue among members about which date the group was actually meeting, which is why the rest of the group was not present.

Next meeting date is Tuesday Jan. 10, at 3 p.m. in Longa / Borchardt's room.

Bloggers Meeting -- Friday Nov. 4, 2011

Claire has created a classroom blog for her and Kristen's 4th grade students that they are actively using for their creative writing.

Here is the link:

http://www.fourthgradewritingwizards.blogspot.com
 

They also sent home a flyer for the parents that the students designed, inviting the parents to check out the blog. Parents and students have been posting numerous comments on the blog under student's work.

The students are learning cooperative learning, how to paraphrase, editing, reading fluency (they read the posts out loud), public speaking, paragraph writing, confidence in their work and showing it off.

Very exciting!

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Jeff has created a blog for his Informer journalism students to muse about their experiences that primarily involve Woodlynde. The idea is that the posts will be less formal -- and typically shorter -- than a story that runs in the newspaper or on the website. Though they still will be well edited.

So far in its infancy, the blog currently has 3 posts from Jeff's freshman journalism electives (about X Block, Day 4 Olweus advisory, and 2 varsity soccer players), but will definitely have more in the coming weeks. There will be a link to the blog from the Informer website. We also will promo new blog posts from our new Informer Fan Page.

The blog link is:

http://woodlyndeinformer.blogspot.com/


Our next meeting is:
Tuesday Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. in Longa/Borchardt's room

Bloggers Meeting -- Tuesday 9/20

The Bloggers PLC met to discuss online articles on blogging and what practical uses blogging could be put toward in the classroom. We also created a new blog, explored blogger.com, learned how to create and delete a post, and talked about the benefits / drawback to creating a class blog vs an individual student blog.

Meeting Reminder: Sept. 20, 3 - 3:45 p.m.

We are scheduled to have our first meeting about blogging on Tuesday Sept. 20, 3 - 3:45 p.m. in Room 309 (Borschardt / Longa's room).

Please also do the assigned reading. See:
http://woodlyndestudentblogging.blogspot.com/
for details and the links.
See you then!
Jeff

Blogging Resources

Each member is assigned to research the below website and report the information at the Sept. 20 meeting.

1) Article on Educational Blogging:--GELMAN http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume39/EducationalBlogging/157920 This is the same article in a bit more color: http://net.educause.edu/0DCB8C34-410B-40B5-80A2-410F32E5E4B0/FinalDownload/DownloadId-6C25AB084A7AAD2DC47D38680DEABD4A/0DCB8C34-410B-40B5-80A2-410F32E5E4B0/ir/library/pdf/ERM0450.pdf 2) Info about Educational blogging... this might be a good starting point: LONGA http://supportblogging.com/Educational+Blogging 3) Edublogs: http://edublogs.org/ BORCHARDT 4) A wiki created as a resource for educators considering blogging: SIMSON http://educational-blogging.wikispaces.com/ 5) Educational blogs by discipline: SHANK http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Education+Blogs+by+Discipline Possible books as resources: Blogging in the Classroom iWrite: Using Blogs, Wikis, and Digital Stories in the English Classroom Classroom Blogging: 2nd Edition