Comments on: Beginning blogging sessions with elementary students

By: wanda lerners

wanda lerners — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:21:01 +0000

solid post , really good perspective on the subject and very well written, this certainly has put a spin on my day, many thanks from the USA and observe up the good work

By: Garden Solar

Garden Solar — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:22:46 +0000

Haha thats a cool post mate. I did think about setting up blogs for the class i was helping out in, but the school didn’t go for it, which is fair enough i guess. I can understand their reasons. Anyway it sounds cool, all the best.

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:25:57 +0000

To Anne, Mr. Webb, and Tamaki Writers-

Your blogs are wonderful examples of student learning! As a veteran teacher trying to “catch up” with this new technology, it was impressive to see how blogging can weave itself into the curriculum. I am one of a group of teachers enrolled in a course to learn how we can integrate Web 2.0 tools into our teaching. It was suggested we look at this blog. Although, I am certainly at the far end of the learning curve right now, your blogs gave me hope. It is wonderful to see theory put into practice. It’s clear your students are reaping the benefits from these learning experiences. Please feel free to share any pointers with us “newbies,” and I wish you continued success with your projects.

By: Anne Davis

Anne Davis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:32:37 +0000

Mr. Webb and Tamaki Writers,

We are getting the student blogs up and going and I have the links on a blog to be used with the students and others. We look forward to commenting back and forth. Look for an upcoming post that will point you to the new blogs!

By: Anne Davis

Anne Davis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:30:19 +0000

Carolyn,

It is wonderful to hear from you. We look forward to the conversations. This group is going to be a great group to work with. They are looking forward to blogging. Are your children blogging? I am getting ready to post about the first day of blogging. Distibuted learning is a neat concept. Thanks for explaining it. I have been busy, busy this past year and we are still writing the research articles for the Blogical Minds group. Research is an extremely time consuming process but it is so worthwhile to contribute. Best to you!

By: Tamaki Writers

Tamaki Writers — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:39:17 +0000

Great to have an audience so far away from New Zealand. All our writing and presentations are closely linked to our school wide English plan. We belong to a cluster of schools in Auckland New Zealand- involved in an intiative which is designed to be literacy based and the ICT componant is our “hook’- our intiative is called Manaiakalani. The students have responded extremely well to the BLOG and love getting feedback so we would love to hear from other students and by all means follow our links there is a lot of great stuff happening in our cluster!!
Rhonda Kelly
Tamaki Primary School

By: Mr Webb

Mr Webb — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:47:47 +0000

Our cluster, which Tamaki Primary School is a part of has just got into blogging this year but we love it, its really opened our students eyes to the world. I know the students at the primary school will be absolutely thrilled to have overseas feedback! If theres anyone interested in being online pals or online buddies and swapping classroom information let us know! Have a look at our work online on tamakitoday.blogspot.com!
Mr Webb, Tamaki Intermediate School, Auckland, New Zealand.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:43:39 +0000

Hi to your class. I can’t wait to read their blogs and see what they learn while blogging.

I am a parent of 3 Distributed Learners in BC, Canada. (Distributed Learners are like homeschoolers except they are supervised by an online teacher). We live on the south coast of BC and the kids school is in Vanderhoof BC (about a 12 hour drive to the interior of the province).