We are very excited to ANNOUNCE that Classroom 2 Kids 2010/11 has started its FIRST STUDENT BLOGS!
For our first entries, we chose a very simple topic… “something we are interested in“. Each student wrote a short line in Microsoft Word about their topic (Hallowe’en celebrations were a popular choice!). The emphasis is on getting our ideas out… so we have to sound out words that we don’t know and use our best invented spellings. We were introduced to “spell check” in MSWord, just as an extra help for making our words readable. (Note: Even MSWord can’t help sometimes!!!)
Mrs. Boekhout made individual pages for us in the “ABOUT OUR CLASS” section of the Edublog. https://classroom2kids.edublogs.org/about/
Next, we learned about “How to Make a Good Blog Comment” from Ms. McGeady’s school blog ( http://2kmblog.globalstudent.org.au/how-to-comment-on-2kms-blog/). Her tips are:
How to write a good quality comment… BY MRS. K. McGEADY
- Write your comment like a letter starting off with “Dear 2KM” or “Dear Miss McGeady”.
- Compliment the writer in a specific way, ask a question, and/or add new information to the post.
- Write your comment about the post. There are often ideas at the bottom of the post about what you could comment about.
- Check your comment for correct spelling, spacing and punctuation before you submit it.
- Don’t reveal any personal information about yourself in your comment.
- Be nice!
We were given “popsicle stick” partners (that’s where your name is drawn out of a jar) for pairing up to write blog comments. It was a little tricky, because you have to put in an email (we used a fake school email) and you have to type in a long anti-spam word to prove that you aren’t a WEB-BOT SPIDER! (Isn’t that funny!!!)
Not everyone has finished their blog comment yet, but we are looking forward to reading them when they are done! The first turns were done all together in the lab, but now that we have an idea of what we are doing (!) we are going to take turns writing blogs and comments on the classroom computers. We hope it works out!
We would like to WELCOME PARENTS to add comments too!
We are being careful not to identify students by last names, so Parents should use either their FIRST NAMES or else call themselves by “student’s first name Mom/Dad”.n (eg. Billy’s Mom, Susie’s Dad)
Please note that all comments are MODERATED by Mrs. Boekhout. This means that your comment will not show up right away. Mrs. B. will check it over first, so that we don’t publish anything that isn’t NICE!!!
We look forward to adding our OWN ideas to the Classroom 2 Kids Edublog, and to reading YOUR comments too!