We are studying Johnny Appleseed this week, so when the Challenge#2 asked us to tell about a place we would like to visit, we immediately thought of John Chapman’s travels. We hope that you enjoy our slides and the information we will share with you. Please listen to the entire slideshow and answer the questions posed at the end of the slides.
Our students in response to the Challenge #2 our students created their own M&M Character. We loved the site and suggest that Miss Wyatt add it to the list of potential avatar creators. As half-creator of the C-O Connections, Mrs. Odom has posted all about these creations on her blog that is linked at the top of our class blog. You can Read all About It on Odom’s Sweets. We have also posted on Jan Mader’s blog, Ignite to Write, which has some excellent open-ended sentences to motivate writing.
At the end of the challenge this week, we were asked to be careful about what kinds of personal information we posted. To the question, “When do you think it is appropriate for students to use real photos of themselves on their blogs and why?” we post real photos on our campus blog when students have earned honors or been acknowledged for student accomplishments. However, we never post first and last names together with photos. We have one of the best technology instructors, Mrs. Peery, and she has some outstanding lessons on her blog, Keystrokes on internet safety.
On the advice of Miss Wyatt, we did visit and read 8 Commandments for Bloggers. He has some helpful rules and we discussed these with our students. Again, Mrs. Peery also has some Rules for Commenting that you might find useful for younger bloggers.
Finally, we want to share a little bit more about our school so that you have a glimpse into our school day. We are a small East Texas school and would like to share our campus with you here in this slide presentation.
Once again for the third year, the C-O Connections are participating in the International Student Blog Challenge. We were so excited this week when we read about the first student challenge in the Challenge 1. Part of the challenge was to update your “About” page to reflect your 2010 students, and there right on the fourth bullet was OUR BLOG, CO CONNECTIONS, cited as an example to all. Thanks so much, Sue Wyatt and Sue Waters for encouraging and motivating students to write. This has really revved up their motors.
We have customized our theme, revised our About page, added the Edublogger badge to our sidebar, and visited the blogs listed on either side of ours in the student challenge listing. So now in order to complete Challenge 1, we would like to tell you why you should visit our blog.
Alex thinks you should visit our blog because there are lots of activities here, like our Game page. We also like to link lots of fun things into each of our posts. You can also find out a lot of information about us and our community by looking at the sides of our blog.
Kristen said that you will see that it snowed here last year. Now this is really something because we rarely get snow. Once it snowed on Valentine’s Day when we were studying the book Snowflake Bentley and we took a snow day. Also, we have a new class this year called Healthy Bodies and it is teaching our students to exercise and eat healthier.
Adrian comments that too much junk food can make you fat.
Mrs. Odom thinks you should visit our blog because we have links to all of our campus blogs listed on the right sidebar. Also, you will find links to the Blog Challenges. Some of our favorite blogs which we still follow are linked and if you will hover your mouse over the titles you will see a description, or location of that blog. This is very helpful to students when looking for a place to comment.
Mrs. Cranford thinks you could spend hours surfing around this class blog. She especially wants to invite you to visit “Mrs. Cranford’s World” because she has pictures of her grandchildren there. See if you can find them. Another great link is to our Moodle Courses. These are online lessons. You can login as a guest using the name given to you on the home page of Moodle. You can go into the Course INDEX which contains ALL of the teachers’ lessons. If your school has Moodle lessons, Mrs. Cranford will email you any lessons you want to import into your own course.
Spend some time with us on C-O Connections.