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Where shall we go today?
Filed Under (C-O (Cranford-Odom) Posts) by Pam Cranford on 13-02-2009 and tagged classroom-blog world-map
How excited it is each day when we sign onto our classroom blog and see that another country or another state has visited our blog! We have hung a giant world map in the entryway of our school so that all can share in our excitement. You see, we are the first class on our campus to attempt blogging, but we don’t think it will remain that way for long. The red dots represent the people who are responsible for our enthusiasm. For that we thank each and every one of you.
Now, where shall we go today? If YOU are reading this, we ask you, “If you could visit any place in the world, where would you go and why?
53 Responses to “Where shall we go today?”
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C-O Creators
February 14th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Hi Guys,
We agree, it is very exciting to see all of the places that your visitors come from. Our class is getting very good at recognising flags because they love looking at the Live Traffic Feed.
Can’t wait to see what you get up to this week. We are going to celebrate 100 days of school with some friends in Canada. You can join us if you like! Would you like to come over and play some maths games with us?
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seth Reply:
April 19th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
it would be an amazing opurtunity!
i cant wait!
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February 14th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
This is such an awesome and exciting project! I will forward your blog to all of my military friends overseas so you can get some really great locations on your map!
To answer your questions, if I could go anywhere…I’d go to Ireland. I’m Irish and would love the chance to visit the home of my grandparents and learn more about my heritage!
Great blog!
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February 14th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I would visit Egypt. I have always wanted to visit the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings to see and touch a piece of ancient history…
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Pam Cranford Reply:
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
My teacher’s aide went to Egypt last year and had a blast. She came back with pictures of the pyramids and even of her on the back of a camel.
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February 14th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
If I could go anywhere in the world…. Well it is a three way tie: Australia, Scotland and Africa.
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February 16th, 2009 at 8:42 am
I would go to Hawaii because I’ve always wanted to see what Hawaii was like.
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February 16th, 2009 at 11:14 am
GOOD ANSWERS
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February 16th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Awesome site kiddoes!
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February 16th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
If I could go anywhere in the world. I believe that it would be Australia. I would love to go to the outback.
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February 18th, 2009 at 8:38 am
I would probably go to Greece. I would love to go visit all the historical place.
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February 18th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I would like to go to Mauna Loa and have a tour up the volcano. It just sounds so peaceful, walking up a volcano that’s probably hundreds of years old…
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February 18th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Hawaii!Because it is very RELAXING!It is a great place to go.This so cool and fun to.This is a good blog!Have a great year.Bye.Gotta go!
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February 18th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I think your website rocks! Congrats for being the TCEA Teacher of the year!
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February 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Thanks for registering your blog as part of the 2009 student blogging challenge. I hope you all enjoy the activities and feel free to contact me at my email addy if you have any questions or ideas for challenges.
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February 19th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I would go to New Mexico and stay in New Mexico for ever and ever.
It would be cool to be at New Mexico .
I would go on the mountains.
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February 19th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I want to go to New York. The food is
very good. My dad would go with me.
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February 19th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I would go to Tyler, Texas because why? MY brother is named that.
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February 19th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I would go to Scotland. It have beautiful forests and
and a beautiful flag and flowers there. I would play in Scotland.
The grass looks like Easter grass and Scotland is the best.
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February 19th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I would go to Paris, France, to see the Eiffel Tower.I would take my mom and dad. I would fly on an airplane to Paris. This would be my first time to fly.
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February 19th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I would go to Hawaii because it is beautiful and the hooladancers are cool.
I want to go into the water.They have coconuts.
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February 20th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Hi Guys,
I am going to Fiji for Easter! My dream destination is South America.
Sue
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February 20th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I want to go to the Pacific Ocean because of the fish and islands.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for visiting our class blog. We also love having other classes comment on our blog. We come from Wodonga,Australia. We love our country but also love learning about other countries. Keep in touch during the blogging challenge.
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February 25th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Thanks for leaving a message on our blog!We’ve joined the 2009 Blog Challenge and very eager to start. I love the picture and the giant map. I will have to use that great idea for my class. We’re still learning lots about blogging and it’s great you have helped us.
The place I’d like to visit most is Iran. It would be so dramatically different to the world I live in here in Melbourne!
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February 25th, 2009 at 4:55 am
We just started a blog too (in December) and all the students love looking at the map and getting responses from all over the world (we are a fourth grade class from Beaufort, South Carolina – http://www.mrsheatonsclass1.blogspot.com). We are still working on better sentence structure, capitalization and punctuation but the kids LOVE blogging (so do I…I have two blogs of my own). Anyway to answer the travel question I am going to have to say anywhere in Asia, Africa and Australia (I have a goal to visit all seven continents and I am missing those three).
Mrs. Heaton
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February 25th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I would stay in Texas and explore all
the cities.
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February 25th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Yes we are looking forward to the challenge in 2009 , here in New Zealand too.
Personally I would like to visit somewhere in the USA, ( I have been there) to see and hear some of my favourite authors.
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February 26th, 2009 at 12:07 am
G’day Mrs C, To make a link BACK to the Edublogger birthday celebrations, just add this to the bottom of your post .. This post has been written on “tips for using blogs with students” as part of The Edublogger’s Birthday Celebration Competition! Change the topic though to what you have written about.
Or use this link in the bottom of the post http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2009/02/04/the-edubloggers-first-birthday-celebration
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February 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Sorry the first link didn’t work, so use the second one starting with http://
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February 26th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Hi. My name is Mrs. Hernandez. I am a teacher in Florida, USA. My 4th grade class also has a blog. We looked at your blog today, and we think it looks great. We really liked the pictures of the dog. We were interested in your class because you are a multi-age class. We also noticed that you have a small class. We would like to know more about you. Please visit our blog and leave comments for us.
Also, you asked about Voicethread. It is really easy to use. I would be happy to help you if you need help, but I doubt you will. Just go to voicethread.com and check it out.
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February 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Thanks for stopping by to our blog. We are a small school in the Highlands of Scotland but what we lack in size, we make up for in enthusiasm! We love blogging and have been doing it for over a year and have had over 4,000 visitors which blows our mind! I like your idea of a huge flag to keep track of visitors to the blog.
Happy Blogging!
Mr Quigley
Head Teacher, Marybank Primary School, Scotland
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February 26th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I really like your class blog, and if i were to go anywhere in the world it would be Australia for sure!
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February 27th, 2009 at 10:49 am
I love water and have two places I very much want to visit; the coasts of Italy and Greece.
We’ve started blogging too; hope you’ll visit the link above, click Lions Lair, Blogs. Our students would love to blog with you!
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Pam Cranford Reply:
March 24th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I teach a 345 sped class in Texas and we would love to be listed in your blogroll. We want to make connections all over the world. What better way to start than right here and right now?
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March 1st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Hi from Portugal!
I hope to know you better during the 09 Challenge! If you wish to visit our class blog, please use the google translator widget to read the posts. You may comment in English, we will translate you.
If I could travel now, I would like to visit the new friends I made on line, so I would start by Tasmania and Australia.
s Ines
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March 5th, 2009 at 4:53 am
I would love to go back to France as I haven’t been there since 1990. I used to be a French teacher and I just love French & France.
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March 5th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I would love to visit the Children’s Eternal Rainforest in Costa Rica. For years our 4th graders have been doing fundraising for this tropical rainforest. Many of my students have been able to visit, but I have not been able to go yet. Maybe some day…. I also have some favorite places right here in Spain which I have visited. The northern Cantabrian coast is beautiful! Perhaps you can visit someday.
Oh, by the way, you can read some of my students’ writing and see some math problems at http://dreamteam.edublogs.org/.
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March 5th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I really like the idea of tracking your blog’s visitors visually like this! We may have to set up something similar in our eighth grade English classroom.
If I could visit any place in the world, it would be New York city because I have always been fascinated by its portrayal in movies, books, and on television.
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Pam Cranford Reply:
March 15th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
My instructional aide was born and raised in New York but never visited New York City. Can you believe that???? Someday maybe she and I will travel there together. We are very good friends.
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March 10th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Hi, it is Marnie and you have previously commented on my blog. I would like to thank you for this… I absolutely love getting comments and I have never had a visitor from Texas! I am a sixth grader from Indiana, and I am assuming you saw my blog through Miss W, is that correct? I am sure you already know this but you can actually put a map as a widget on your blog that shows you a map with dots that where people from different parts of the world have visited your blog! Thanks and I hope you come back to my blog.
~Marnie
http://marnies604.edublogs.org/
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Pam Cranford Reply:
March 15th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Marnie, I absolutely will come back to your blog. I also want to invite you back to our blog because when we get back from spring break, we will be posting all about TEXAS. You will enjoy learning about our state.
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March 14th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
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March 15th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Hello! I am from Indiana. The furthest from the United States I have been is to the Bahamas on a cruise. I would really like to go to London and Paris. I think it would be very fun to go to Europe.
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Pam Cranford Reply:
March 15th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Abbey, my husband and I went on a cruise to the Bahamas last October. It was beautiful and we would love to go back sometimes. Thank you for commenting on our post. Please come back and visit us again.
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March 15th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Hi Guys,
I am doing the “09 Challenge” too! I love this post and idea of the world map. I’m going to use it, too. You have a great blog. My blog is http://teacher102.edublogs.org/ I teach grade one outside of Mongreal, QC. I am originally from the U.S.
This is a great challenge and has gotten me visiting so many more blogs. I would like to visit Australia and meet some of the wonderful people I’ve met through blogging.
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Pam Cranford Reply:
March 15th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Where in the states are you from? I too have enjoyed visiting lots of classroom blogs. The teachers in Australia are absolutely inspiring. I would love to visit oen of their classrooms. Let’s go together.
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March 15th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Hi, I am Gavin from St. Petersburg, Florida. If I could go anywhere in the world it would be Rome. I have always want to go there. I would want to see the colosseums. If you want you can visit our site at http://writeoutloud.edublogs.org/.
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Pam Cranford Reply:
March 15th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Thank you, Gavin for commenting on our blog. So you would go to Rome. One of our third grade teachers left for Rome last week. I cannot wait for her to return and bring pictures to class. Our principal’s daughter is currently spending the next few months in Italy as part of her college classes. They certainly didn’t have that kind of class when I was in college. I hope some day you get an opportunity to travel to Rome to fulfill your dream.
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March 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Hi -
I was born in Buffalo, NY… went to High School in San Diego, CA and started teaching in the Boston, MA area. I would love to travel to Australia with you. It is so much fun to meet people all over the world. I think this question of where you’d like to travel to is amazing.
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March 30th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I would LOVE to go to Australia. I have never been but heard it is beautiful. I have been all over Europe and loved every minute of it but Australia would be a wonderful place to go!
http://www.mraustinsblog.com
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April 1st, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Hi, I’m one of Gavin’s classates, it is so neat to comment on your blog. If I would go anywhere in the world I would go to my ancestorial home in Scotland. I would love to go to there because I love golf and that’s where golf was invented!
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