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Once again, my students are over the moon to have these big “kids” as part of their learning network. They got to meet their buddies face to face digitally last week via Skype, and were eager to ask important questions such as “Do you have a phone number book?”, “Do you like Pokemon” and “I wonder if you’re having a good day?” Patrick took pictures of the “big buddies” and emailed them to me. I printed them off and gave them to the children to keep in their desks. As in past years, these precious pictures come out to be looked at many times each day. I even saw one of the pictures getting a kiss!
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He said, “Maybe we could find out if they have blogs and we could comment to help them out, too”. Out of the mouths of babes… Apparently none of them are blogging–yet. Well, ELNG 325? We’re waiting.
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20 Uses for Our Classroom Blog
Why did we create a classroom blog and how will we use it?
1. document our growth across the year
2. inform families of what we are doing
3. expand our audience
4. collaborate with other first grade bloggers
5. use another form of writing
6. learn about writing for an audience
7. learn about digital literacy
8. document favorite events of this year
9. integrate writing with other subjects
10. write book reviews
11. write journal entries
12. respond to class assignments
13. free choice writing
14. develop keyboard skills
15. communicate with each other
16. collaborate with reading buddies from other classrooms
17. collaborate with teachers from the university as blogging buddies
18.post pictures of our work
19. learn about visual literacy through the design of our pages
20. to have fun! -
Because I use Classblogmeister to host my classroom blog, the comment came to me for approval before it was posted, so I was able to delete it and she was never the wiser. Her self-esteem is still firmly intact.
If it had been one of my students who had written the comment, I would want to know about it. The student did not have a name that was familiar to me, but I went to the Sitemeter I have posted on my blog. One of the options is “referrals”. It gives the URL from which the person linked to my blog. Since I knew what time the comment arrived in my email, it was easy to check and see where the referral had come from near that time. I followed the link to another Classblogmeister blog, with the offending student’s name and the teacher’s email address clearly there. The teacher wrote me back thanking me for the information, saying that she would be “definitely dealing with it”.
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Peggy GeorgeAnother excellent blog recently created by Kathy Cassidy-Thoughts from a grade one teacher. Writes about lots of different teaching strategies and experiences.
kathycassidy blog PD literacy math reading writing literaturecircles web2.0
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Really Big Blogging Buddies
April 7, 2008 by kathycassidy
For the past three months, the children in my class have all had a blog mentor from the University of Regina. These mentors are all talking a class from Patrick Lewis that focuses on how to teach writing to primary students. It has been an ideal partnership. The “big blogging buddies” get to watch and participate in the writing development of a live, breathing primary child, and the little blogging buddies have a captive audience for their beginning writing.
One of the requirements for the university class is that the participants comment on each blog entry that my students make. I provided the students with the rubric that I would be using to assess writing at the end of the year so that the expectations were clear. We also had twice-weekly chats via Skpye in which the mentors took turns chatting with my children about their writing. The other requirement was that the students all come out to meet my children at the end of the semester—a forty-five minute drive. (Patrick made this a requirement this year after I had several children in tears last year when the anticipated day arrived and their big buddy did not.)
The improvement in the writing skills of children in grade one is always profound, but the modeling and suggestions that the pre-service teachers have given have made a big difference to my children. Knowing that someone besides their teacher will be nagging them about periods, capital letters and writing more details has motivated and encouraged them.
Last week, after I had answered the question “when are our blogging buddies coming?” 304 times, our university blogging buddies finally came to visit us. As you can see in the picture above—pure joy. I wish every classroom could experience this.
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