Tuesday, November 6, 2012

What exactly is a blog?

Dear students,

What exactly is a blog, and why are we using it in 4th grade?

We will use the blog to communicate about different things we discuss in class. Our online post will extend our conversations from class, and allow us to see what other classmates are thinking as well.

We will use the blog for many different things. Often I will write a post, and you will be asked to respond to it for homework. For example, we might post about different reading strategies, or use it to respond to poetry in the spring. However, this year I would also love to have students write a blog post, and classmates can respond to their post.

Today, I am interested in your thoughts about the blog. Please answer the following questions:
1. What excites you about the blog?
2. What questions do you have about the blog?
3. What ideas do you have for future blog posts or using the blog?

I look forward to reading your first blog response!

41 comments:

  1. I think it is a better way of useing a reading log because sometimes useing paper reading logs gets boring.I hope it`s a good blog because I have never used one before.
    I wonder how it works. I wonder if if it doesn`t work. I hope it does work because i have never used a blog before.
    I do not like to post things very much because you never know if they get it or not unless they tell you. I wounld only post if it fasinating picture.

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  2. 1. Doing it with my class because I already have a blog
    2. What are we ging to write about in our blog?
    3. Maybe we could talk about what we do in school or our traditions

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  3. I am excited about the blog becuse I like to learn new ways to comucate to friends. I don't think that I have any questions. I think it would be cool if we all wrote a poem and then picked which one we like the best.

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  4. I am exicted to have blog because e-mail gets boring.

    I want to know how to read my friends posts.

    I am going to post my thoughts on my books and ideas.

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  5. I am excited because we don't just have e-mail.
    A question I have is,"What is a blog?"
    I don't really have any ideas.

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  6. The fact that the whole class can see your response excites me.
    Does the blog have a spell checker?
    Maybe we can post homework on the blog.

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  7. I am excited that I can actually have a blog.
    Can you send a post to just one person?
    I don't have any ideas.

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  8. The reading log that is on here. What are the stories on awesome stories? If it is possibie you can put our email on the place where it says spelling city.

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  9. Being able to use a blog excites me. I dont have any questions.We could talk about our book.

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  10. 1. I`m excited about the online reading log.
    2. Why does the URL not start with www.?
    3. I think that in the future this can be great for class progects. I also think the online RL can be a little bit better.



    John

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  11. I am excited about the reading log that is on the blog. How does the whole blog work? I don't have any ideas.

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  12. 1. I'm excited about the reading log because I always forget to write it down on paper and it would be like the student email.
    2. Why are we using a blog?

    3. If we have a assiment we can use the websit and every body will know.

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  13. I am exitd about the blog because I wont need to keep up with my reading log. My only Question is,"will you email us before you assign us on the blog?" An idia I think would be helpful is that youcan assign us homework on the blog.

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  14. It excites me because I can post things quicker than mailing stuff to people in the class. We can have book convesations on it.

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  15. 1.The class blog exites me because our friends can see what we put.
    2.I do not have any questions.
    3.We could say how our weekend was.

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  16. I'm excited about the blog because you get to go to brain pop and spelling city faster. I want to know what books would be on the awesome books website. We could talk about our book and tell you how it is going.

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  17. It excites me because,it will be much faster than handwriting blogs on 1 piece of paper.

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  18. what excites me about having a blog is being able to cuminicate beter with my friends!
    One of my questions is are we going to do projects on the blog?
    I'm excited to chat with the class and teachers

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  19. I am happy that we have a e-mail and a blog. what is a blog? I have no question.

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  20. I am really excited about the blog. what I am really looking forward to is the online reading log and the cool sites we can visit.My only question is, is there any ofter things to explor on the blog. I really dont have an idea, but one will come to me later.

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  21. I can`t wait to go read all of the blogs it really excites me!

    How will we git to read peoples blogs?

    I think we should write stores about other things.

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  22. i dont really have any queistions at all about the blog

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  23. A question i have is how to use a blog.

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  24. It excites me because it will be easyer to to type my reading log because I lost my reading log and you can't loes it on the enternet

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  25. I think that this is a better way we can get to know each other. Way better that we have now. I think this will be an adventure similar to way to talk to others. One of my questions is, that could you like use you e mail and stuff on this without having to go to to a different website? I would like to know that. I think that if we have any questions about like homework than this would be great communication thing to do.

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  26. I think it is very fascinating to have a blog because you can send a responce in a different way than email.
    My question is that can you only send it to one person?
    I think that if we have to brainstorm ideas we can send each other blogs and give them ideas.

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  27. I am looking forward to being able to talk to my friends quicker than e-mail, and i do not need to keep up with my reading log. How dose the whole blog work? A idia is that you can assign homework on the blog.

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  28. an idea i have is:To add fonts on a blog

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  29. I am looking forward to having a blog because And Miss. Blackmon can send me homework assinments. i do not have any questions.

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  30. i am exited about the blog because i can use it to ask people queistions or i can ask them about the book their reading and if i should read it or not

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  31. I am excited about the blog becaues of the online reading log. Why do we have a blog if we could communicate with e-mail? I'm excited to get to communicate with my friends.

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  32. I'm really excited about the blog.My question is how to use the blog because I'v never used a blog before. Some things we could blog about are reading stratergies,what we're reading,and what we learned about in class.Another thing we could blog about is asking for good books to read and tell you what there about.

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  33. I am reading the book Ramona Quimby age 8. It's about a girl named Ramona who is going into the third grade, and she has to go to a new school this year and ride the bus this year. Her big sister named Beezus is also going into a new school this year. The worst part is Ramona has to go to her friend Howie's grandmothers house every day and play with his little sister named Willa Jean while Beezus does her homework.Though the worst part for Ramona is that she has to see her dad every day very sad because he has to go to art school to be able to be an art teacher and take all of these tests will her dad get the job and will Ramona get through the third grade?

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  34. The book that I'm reading is Gusta Gloom And The People Taker. In this book the Main characters are Gusta Gloom, fernie, and the people taker. In this book Gusta Gloom Is the little boy who is always looking sad and is always behined his black frence and always holding his black book ,In his black yard, all the naybers are afired to go and talk to him. Once fernie and her famliy move across the sreet from Gusta Gloom, fernie is determend to find out whats in side of the gloom masin and that odd boy sitting on the pourch of his house the gloom manshin.

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  35. book review on A PICKPOCKETS TAIL
    A PICKPOCKETS TAIL is about a little girl named Molly who lives in London, England, in Seven Dials in 1730. her Mom died when she was 8 and now she's 12. She is a very good pickpocket but when someone tells on her she gets sent to America New York. The Bells Family buys her as a servant. They are very kind and genres but she is determined to get back to Seven Dials in London. But is America actually better for Molly?

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  36. I think in the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I think Harry is very sneaky because he sneaked into Hogsemeade which is the best candy store without being seen. I think he will grow to be even more of a mysterious person.

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  37. I think that all of the animals have there own ability to do there own stuff like swim, walk, fly, spin webs and do lot's of stuff.!.!

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  38. I think just to have a blog is cool to me. Can we make our own blog? My every day life.

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