We’re writing our ebook with step-by-step instructios on how to make a school website or classroom blog and quickly remembering why we like self-hosted WordPress blogs so much. Lots of teachers start their classroom blogs using a free WordPress blog or Edublogs account. And quite frankly, that’s the right place to start: It’s free. There’s [...]
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4 Extra Things That You Can Do With a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog (that you can’t do with a Free WordPress blog)
August 24th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Classroom Blogs, Uncategorized
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Dynamic Visual Brainstorming Software – PreWriting, Brainstorming, Organizing and Outlining Ideas with a Computer
August 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Classroom Technology, Uncategorized
So, we’ve decided to write a book. A small summer project to warm-up with before heading back into the classroom in September. Of course, this is a great opportunity to try out some visual thinking software to help us with our prewriting. We have a huge list of software and educational technologies that we wanted [...]
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Running Records and Miscue Analysis at the Intermediate Level
July 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
For more information on teaching reading strategies and balanced literacy at the Intermediate Level, visit us at http://balancedliteracy.ca. “If there is one single task that stands up better than any other observation task, it is the running record of text reading. This is a neutral observation task, capable of use in any system of reading, [...]
Classroom Blogs – How to Protect Your Students’ Identities
June 21st, 2008 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
If you publish a classroom blog, are you putting your students at risk? Maybe. The internet is a powerful tool and like cars, glue and the force, it can be used for good and evil. The Risks Here are three reasons why we need to consider how much personal information is intentionally or accidentally revealed. [...]
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Blogging in the Classroom
May 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
Blogs (weblogs) are a great social media tool to communicate with the world, publish your work, and to interact with people around the world. According to Technorati.com (which is the Google of blogs), there are currently over 112.8 million blogs in the world today. A blog is like your own personal soapbox from which you [...]
