Blogging at the schools
Saturday, January 14th, 2006Thursday and Friday were filled with good blogging sessions! I met with Kelly Neville, a second grade teacher at another elementary school. She needed help setting up a class blog and we brainstormed some possibilities. I’ll be going back there next Thursday to introduce blogging to the second graders. I can tell it’s going to be a good venture. More on that later.
Friday I had two really great sessions at the high school. The teacher cadets have received their school placements and have already been to their respective schools. Their posts are all about their beginning adventures “up the down staircase”. Be sure to read their posts and maybe even leave some words of wisdom for them. Read all about Tiffany, one of the high school students who started the year off with an amazing good deed! That story is here and you can link to the student blogs from the same site. I think it really helps us to step back and see through their eyes and then be able to help them and provide guidance. Wow! What I would have given for a few words of wisdom back then. Isn’t it something? I still want those words of wisdom years later and I’m still blown away that blogs have made that so available. The doors just keep opening!
Then I went to my “at-risk” group and found that I just have two of the previous students, Amon and Timothy. Valerie, Chris, Justin, Eric, Wesley, Jonathan T., and Jonathan L. are other members of our U.S. History group! I hope to still get to see the others from last semester from time to time. We’ll see. The new members are a good crew! We gave them an overview of blogs, had them comment on A School of Voices, and Timothy and Amon were there front and center helping me explain blogging. They did a terrific job! Go see some pictures at Getting Heard.
Mrs. Baros and I had some time before the Christmas break to do some planning for this U.S. history group. We’re excited! I showed Mrs. Tincher a wiki today. She was intrigued….. Me, I’m soaring…….
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