I spent some more time with kidblogs and I think it will be great for us to use as students become more independent and proficient at blogging. Until then, we will use our blog here to get our skills up. Hopefully we will have some students who are able to move up to having their own blogs soon!
I'm excited because I think I've finally found a blog/website system that will all work together the way I want. Yay! Yay! Yay! We'll see how it is to manage once I have all you in the library trying to get this to work. I'm going to post the link to this site on edmodo so that those of you who've been on there this summer can come try it out and give me feedback before school even starts.
Hey kids, this may be what we've been waiting for to make it so we can post videos on our sites! Click to read the link on how to post a video without trashy content from "related videos" showing up.
Some of you may have noticed that I've posted a feed for the fifth grade blog on the right side of this page. Whenever we post to the fifth grade site it will also appear here. Maybe we'll get comments on the fifth grade site this way?
So, I think I have it set up now so that if you post a comment in the [email protected] website, it will automatically post to Edmodo. Edmodo only checks for updates once an hour, so it may take awhile to show up, but I think will work.
To me this seems a lot like the wikis, but we can watch the clip and discuss advantages and disadvantages of the two options for us.
This video explains wikis and we'll look at it in class on Wednesday and discuss how it can be useful for us at school.
Wikis sound to me like some small furry creature from Star Wars! They aren't though. See if you can find out what a wiki is by next class. We'll talk about it and watch a short video on Wednesday (assuming our internet is working!).
It's good to see some of you have already been able to use this blog. Hopefully it will end up being better for us. Let me know what you think by taking the poll on the "cool links" page. I don't have anything besides the poll on the cool links page, but I plan to add on the link to Roosevelt's AR tests, the online encyclopedia, and other stuff that I think will be useful for you. I'd love to hear your suggestions for what other things you'd like to see as part of our library webpage.
Hi there, sixth graders... now I'm testing your ability to be flexible. As you know, I've been frustrated with the inability to consistently get to the old blog and then, once a comment is made on the blog, it's been hard to follow easily. I think this site will do a better job of making the comments visible without major searching under the different blog posts. We'll see.