More elementary student bloggers on the scene!
form Gordon Brune today that made my day! More elementary student
bloggers are entering the blogging world! Hooray! Gordon is a 4th grade
teacher at Mamaroneck Avenue School in New York. Here’s his email:
Hi!
I have admired your blog(s) for
some time now. In fact I am emulating your 
blogs — albeit
not as well!. Check out our first-step attempts at
http://landmark-project.com/blogmeister/blog.php?blogger_id=251
I am truly realizing the need
for an audience (as you posted about awhile back). I would like my
students to check out your students’ posting and comment on them. But I
see that they will need to input an email address. My students do not
have formal school email accounts. What do you suggest I do?
Have them use my email address?
Look forward to hearing from you.
Gordon Brune
I would say that he is doing quite well with his first-step attempt and I can’t wait to hook his students up with mine.
In case you’re wondering how I answered his email question here’s my reply to Gordon:
Hi Gordon,
Thank you
for your nice comments about my blogs. I am going to spotlight this on my blog!
(http://anne.teachesme.com) It
is exciting! I am so happy to see a fourth grade teacher implementing this! I have
done it now for three years with fourth and fifth graders. They can really
become good writers and thinkers! It≠s ironic to hear from you today because I
meet with my students on Thursdays √ they will be doing news reports tomorrow.
They would love to hear from your students. I will have them comment to your
students tomorrow. My group does have real email addresses but they do
not use them. In order for them to be an author of a typepad blog they have to
have an email address so we provided a school one but they do not actually use
them.Let me
explain how we get around the email address for commenting with the entire
school body. Your students can post a comment without having a
real email address. This is what we do. We tell students to use first names
only and they use this bogus email address: Griselda@mahanmail.edu, jane@matelingmail.edu, Thomas@henningmail.edu, marcos@toblermail.edu
Now the
first part is the students first name, then mahanmail is their teachers last
name and mail
It works for
us!
I would love
for your students to reply to my students. All of my student blog links are on
the left side of The Write Weblog (http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog).
The
audience is really empowering for the kids! Now, I must get back to
reading your kids≠ blogs! Great work, Gordon! Let≠s keep in touch!
Anne
March 2nd, 2005 at 7:28 pm
AH! Now the concept of audience is REALLY hitting me. People are actually checking us out now — we gotta make it good!