Overview+and+Expectations

Be thinking of a 'post' that would be suitable for the beginning of school. (Or no-pressure, you can write a post and you can replace it later.) If you have a photo, bring that too.
 * Expectations for July 29th (2009)**

Take a look at some of the "cool stuff" you can add to your blog too. Again, think about the purpose of your blog and the students' blogs. Review the blogging page.

Finish anything below, that you haven't tried.

> > We had an impromptu session last night with Sue Bacon, and Tracy. We talked about Wordle and blogs a bit. > > 1. **Wordle** - Investigate Wordle.net. The home page can be inappropriate at times so I have the students go directly to [|wordle.net/create] > How could you use this in your classroom? I've used it to create signs for my door. My students have created some about themselves. I've also seen some of famous speeches. If you google wordle and your content area, you may find some examples. See if you can create one. (you do not need an account.) > > 2. Read this about **twitter**. It seems to answer a lot of questions, especially why use it? > [] > - Download an application that will create a window for you to view twitter. Try tweeterfeed, twitterific or an add-on to firefox called twitterfox. Make sure your settings are set in these new applications so you don't view everyone's tweets. > > 3. **Blogs** - research how blogs are used in classrooms, professionally and personally. Start to think about how you could utilitize this tool. Personally, blogs intimidated me at first. I felt like I had to share my life and thoughts when I didn't have much to share. Since then, I've found this is not the case and I have found a purpose of a blog. > > Here's the 7th grade blog (I shared it with the art teacher). We did this so the students would have one blog to themselves. Note the area for teacher assignments. How did we use this blog? > [] > [] > > Note the add-ons or widgets added to the blogs. This is a wiki developed by Maria. It will give you some ideas about blogs and their purposes. > > For RJH, we will use classblogmeister for students. You are welcome to experiment with other types for yourselves.
 * Expectations for July 27th** via Email from Sheila (July 21)
 * Just a reminder we will be meeting online Monday, July 27th, at 7 pm using skype. Don't forget to leave skype running on your computer as there have been some links and updates in the skype chat.
 * For homework, see if you can do the following:
 * Maria's KinderKids blog is also on classblogmeister. How has she used her blog?
 * Go to this site: [|http://globalclassrooms.wikispaces.com/Blogging]

More to come!