Eslnewbies

I’ve set out to it.
1st.
wrote a consent form to parents, so they know what we’re doing and have access to the blog. Kids took 3 weeks to bring consent form back…

2nd.
Create an account for each kid – chaos!!! Sent them emails with my first screencast explaining the how to’s. Only half a dozen of them watched the screencast. They couldn’t find the link in the email. Most of them has no idea what a link is.. They’re kids. Small kids, I keep telling myself..

3rd. Read Kim Cofino’s post on google class accounts and all became easier. Found a link in her blog to a wonderful tutorial screencast on how to do it!

4th. Made my first voicethread!! for the kids to comment and do online exercises about the alphabet!

5th. This next week, i’m finally testing it with the kids.

I’m optimistic. Or so-so. Well, not really.

And that’s it.

Blogged with Flock

Tags: edublogpractice, edublogs, b4e, students, problems

Blogged with Flock

Well, after reading Carla’s and Angela’s and Cris‘ answers to the B4Echallenge, i decided to give it a try. So here goes some (5) things about me that you don’t know:

1. I’m afraid of driving, so despite i’m a 31 year old woman, i still haven’t finished taking my driver’s license…(please don’t make fun of me).

2. I’m a yoga practionner, but i hate meditation – i’m only there for the more down-to-earth activities… I’m a complete sceptic about everything that’s not there for the eye to see.

3. Like Carla (used to be) I’m a part-time secretary, and a part-time teacher, struggling to teach full-time… Well…teaching is already a full-time activity for me, cause i do spend all of my free time preparing things for kids, and reading and writing (and doing online EVO’s…), but still, it’s not enough to make a living out of it, so…

4. I always wanted to be a teacher – it’s what I really like to do.

5.When i was little, i used to take long walks with my grandmother. One day she asked me: “where do you want to go today?” And I stuck my finger out through the window to the horizon line and asked her what was there, where we couldn’t see any further, and she told me it was the Horizon. So from that day on, whenever we went for a stroll, my grandmother started asking me if I wanted to take a walk to the horizon. This is just to say i loved my grandmother, and that she will always inspire me to search for beauty and meaning in life’s little things. 

I’ve had this project for a long time now, and i’m trying now to find some time to go through with it. i’m planning to invite Ss from 1st grade to 4th grade and create a page for each grade. I’ve already created one for the 4th graders, because i’m going to test the blog with them, before i move on to the others. still don’t know exactly what to do other than post their work here and some online exercises. I really hope to learn a lot from all you guys at blogging4eds on how to make this a really interactive experience for the kids. my dream is that they can come here and feel that they also ‘run the show’… i’m thinking of adding a password to each page (all but this one) so I can post pictures of classroom activities and stuff and not worry about privacy.

There’s still a lot of tyding to do here, i know.. it’s a bit messy. But i hope i can make it work.