This week I began my 2nd year of blogging with my students and I must say that this year is off to a much smoother start than last year. Perhaps that comes from the fact that I ironed out a lot of the kinks last year (notice I didn’t say ALL) and therefore have a better approach to introducing them to the students. Only time will tell I guess. I do have something interesting that I need to check with Mr. Mattson about…is there a program we can attach to our blogs that would allow us to “instant message” with the kids when they are blogging? I ask because I encountered something tonight that I haven’t encountered before. It was about 9:45 p.m. and I kept getting emails that Jaden had new comments. On one hand I was thrilled that he was so engaged on only our 3rd real day of blogging. However, it was late…even I was tired! As soon as I logged in to check them I realized he was posting back to people who had questions about his student council post. The mother in me came out and I just had to find a way to tell him he needed get to bed so I logged in as his administrator and posted a “message” under the guise of a new post. He got the message…but I’m wondering if there is a simpler way to accomplish this!? Mr. Mattson…what do you think?
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September 11th, 2008 at 7:19 am
There are ways to add chat capabilities into a blogs sidebar but might be more trouble than its worth as they would always be on and not just when we wanted them on. There is a capability in the Site Admin section called Admin Message which allows you to put an message in every blogs’ admin section. I just put one up for sixth graders about writing comments. You may want to try using that.
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September 11th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I too, believe this year “appears” to be a little easier. I’m still having to get used to the new format for Wordpress. I did finally figure out how to add students to my site under the “blogroll,” although it took me about an hour! Once I had added everyone, I thought, “What if their blog is private? Does that mean, I should check the box next to “keep this link private?” Well, I did, and as you can see, only 4 of my students have public blogs. Now, that made me just think of another question…”Can a parent/family member have a login too so that they can view and comment on their student’s blog?” Aaargh…and I thought I had it all figured out!
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October 9th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Mrs.Hulbert I like how you put detail on your writing like on your vistor you put good detail and that is all I want to say bye.
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October 20th, 2008 at 8:00 am
I like how you said this year started out smooth.
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