Monitter November 9, 2008
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I was browsing through my newest twitter feeds and came across a reference to the site monitter.com. What a great website. Twitter can seem a bit overwhelming at times. This website is helpful for trying to focus in on specific information or for finding more information on a topic mentioned in a twitter feed. Can’t wait to play with it some more.
This is the first picture I have tried to upload…..hope it works.
First Comment – It’s a High! November 9, 2008
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I got my first comment on this blog today. Wow! I can’t believe what a heady feeling it is to have someone read your work and find it worthy of a comment. (A huge thank you to Mrs. G for taking the time to respond.) The feeling is a reminder for me of how powerful this can be for students. I am not sure that the strenght of the feeling can be explained. It needs to be experienced. Definitely something to share with the teachers at my school when I present on blogging this Friday.
Blogs of Many Flavors November 8, 2008
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This week I am presenting a “Tech Talk” to the teachers at my building. The topic is blogging. This will be an introduction to what blogging is and how it might fit into classroom instruction, not a how-to. I have spent the last few days trying to find examples of good quality classroom and student blogs to share with them. I have found that this isn’t as easy as it seems. Most small classroom blogs don’t show up in general search results. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to find them. Or at least I haven’t discovered it. I have found some excellent examples by looking at other peoples Delicious bookmarks and by looking for blog links on other classroom blogs, but I feel like I am going about it the hard way.
Despite my difficulties in the search, I am excited by what I see going on when teachers blog. What I have found is that there are many flavors of blogs. In an attempt to organize my own mind here is a list of they types of blogs I have found.
1. Blogs written solely by a teacher to inform parents, students or others about what is going on in the classroom. This seems to be the most common class blog type that I have found.
2. Blogs written as a conversation. The teacher posts information/assignments and the students respond with comments.
3. Classroom blogs done by the teacher that have individual student blogs as part of them.
4. Blogs written to follow a particulary project. An example might be a blog about a particular ongoing project or a blog that is used only for the lenght of a novel to document student thoughts on each chapter.
5. Blogs that are written as a personal diary.
I wonder how many other flavor of classroom blogs I will find?
