Archive for the 'Student Bloggers' Category
A Week of Blogging
Eighth graders wrote a blog post a day last week and then made an index to share them. Below you will find links to their indices. Krayton Andrew Vanessa Becca Tyler Chandler Shiann Justin Jaci Paul Christina Grace Meghan Paris Jason
Mark Brown’s “Take a Stand”
Today my students got to go to see a remarkable man sharing about how to Take a Stand against bullying. He was delightful and had his audience of 700+ middle schoolers laughing, crying, and listening to each of his words. A few of them wrote about the talk on their brand new blogs: Anna Jared [...]
Monday Mashups
Students have been busy posting this past week in our Week of Blogging Challenge. Today’s challenge was Monday Mashups. Most of us had fun with BeFunky.com, a great mashup Web 2.0 app. Here are some of the students’ creations for Monday Mashup. Notice they used only Creative Commons licensed images that allowed for derivatives or [...]
Off the Cuff Thursday Posts
Students wrote about anything they wanted to today. Here are their posts. Anna – My Summer Vacation Jade – Realistic and Unrealistic Goals for Summer Deven – Five Best Apps Anna – Hi Jaci – Mixed-Matched Socks Grace – Basketball Shiann – Iowa Meghan – Basketball Game Vanessa – Inspiration Justin – RC Cars Becca [...]
Blogging Ideas
A week of blogging… Monday Mashup Using a photo from a friend or a photo with the right CC license, make a mashup using a cool editing program. Then publish it on your blog. Don’t forget to share with the original owner what you did and properly attribute the photo to the original owner too. [...]
Iowa
Hello, Jack and all the 4th graders in Pennsylvania. We hope you learn much about all 50 states this year. Here are some things that my students have written about Iowa. Have fun learning! All About Iowa Grace’s Post Paris’s Post Shiann’s Post Vanessa’s Iowa Photos Life Science Photos Iowans in History Click on each [...]
Strewth! It’s Miss W and Mr. Davo Devil
We never realized last spring that Miss W would actually come to our school! We participated in our first ever Student Blogging Challenge last spring, and we met Miss W then. She left many comments on our blogs and taught us all much about blogging. Blogging Challenge #4, activity 5 was to write about your [...]
Our Study Hall Chess Club
Chess is a two player board game that has been around for a very long time. In the Soviet Union state officials played chess to compete for promotions. This year in study hall we are learning how to play chess in our chess club. The goal of chess is to trap the king and take [...]
8th Grade History!!
My class and I have recently posted about our personal museums and about American History. Be sure to check out our posts on the “Active Eighth Grade Blogs” blogroll at the right! You can also click here to see our video about what we think history is. Posted by Jaci
