Oct 19th, now I am on another class computer and it looks like several students can have the same website open at the same time, and make entries.

Friday, Oct. 19th
Today there will be a tech meeting in our elementary lab, and I am planning to talk about the possibility of having class blog sites, like 5A, 5B, and 5C all having a class blog site that each student can enter portfolio work, or writing samples.
Then parents can view them from home.
The teacher can also publish their weekly newsletters on the blog site.
What's your thoughts?

Oct. 16th
After a 3 day holiday from school, I am back working with the blog site for students.
There isn't much else I can think of to do now becasue I need to get students started on using it.
I will have them post some of their plant research.
Which reminds me, I probably need a new e mail address as I want the students to use a school e mail address, not my personal account.

Adding student work.. Daniel K

Oct. 12th second entry.

Now I want to insert a photo or piece of student work....

Oct. 12th
Today I am writing in Word then importing the file into the blog site. That way I can have students work at home, or in class, and insert their blog into the site as a finished, edited product.

I notice that I have to do my formating in the blog site. I can't format text (size 20 Catchup) then import the text.

October 11th,

I edited the profile on this website, and yesterday I made a wiki site on wiki spaces.

I talked with the 5th grade teachers about students making entries on this or another blog site.

We are thinking of Plants as a research topic.

I would probably have the students write their research in Word, then copy and paste it into the blog site.

Oct. 10th
I worked on getting a free wiki site, but the one I wanted http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
I couldn't seem to register. I will try again tomorrow.
It's a good week for this kind of exploration as Jo is giving Plato Math tests all this week.

Oct. 9th announcements

this is the afternoon of Oct. 9th, Jo and I are eating lunch and trying to figure out how to make an effective blog site.
I just edited the post.

This is my post for Oct 9th, still practicing.

The Ast Elementary Blog Site!