Class Blog!

I'm so proud of myself! I made a classroom blog at wordpress today! I'm so excited to use it with my kids. I'm going to spend a day or two just modeling how to use the site first, though, so it doesn't turn into a disaster. Tomorrow I'm going to link it to my regular class webpage so it will be easy for my kids to link to it. AND not only did I create the blog, but I used slide.com to download a slideshow of my kids! I'm about technologied-out for the night! Check it out, though. http://carolinecunningham.wordpress.com/

Update: Our classroom blog is coming along nicely! At first it was like pulling teeth to teach the kids how to get to it. Now it is linked to our school page, and the students are so used to visiting it that they never need help finding it anymore (that is an accomplishment in itself). It is very useful to me, because the kids never have to type in web addresses. They always know to go to the class blog and find the appropriate heading. This made our webquest very simple. I also used the blog to let the kids write comments about poetry before our poetry unit. I have uploaded our biome PowerPoints, our digital story, and other poems to the blog so that the parents can understand what their kids are doing. I also hope that my blog will serve as a great example for my students next year. It will be a great storage device for me, too!