Sunday, April 3, 2011
Evaluating GAME plan progress
My plan has taken a twist! A TIS at another school introduced me to kidblog.org. I love it! None of the students need individual emails, which is always time consuming because I have to create individual email accounts for each student. So what I have done is to create a classroom account at kidblog.org. All of my students have usernames and passwords. The students have all had a chance to respond to their first post, and some students have created their own posts. I also created a Google blogger account for my co-teacher (math & science) and uploaded pictures that I had taken of her class and used Smilebox. She struggles with technology and I am helping her do something new. After I set it up and showed the class, one of the students came back the next day with a picture she had printed off of the post. This blog allows students and parents to respond to what is happening at school. They can use their own email addresses that they created.
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Hi Melody,
ReplyDeleteThis is exciting news to share. Yes--a blog site that lets you avoid that extra administrative work is a find--it sounds like your students are getting involved in the blog process.
How wonderful that you are helping your co-teacher.
Thank you for posting.
I too have found Kidblog to be a great tool! I found that that having the capability to approve each post was comforting when I first started trying out blogging. This biggest challenge was getting (5th grade) students to respond thoughtfully! I used it as an assessment tool where students posted summaries of lessons in math and writing. It was a novel idea for some so it turned out to be a great motivator! Good luck to you!
ReplyDeleteWow great tool to use in the classroom and a great way to help you colleague. I will be using that website with my students and I am excited. Hope everything works out great!
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