Our year in review
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What a great year we have had in 2008!! Using lots of new technology in the classroom through to being nominated for the best new blog in the 2008 Edublog awards. We didn’t win but we did receive 56 votes while the winner had 79.
The year began in February with Miss W. learning how to blog, use wikis, create delicious bookmarks and much more. Of course, she then brought all this knowledge into our classes. But first we learnt about how to be internet savvy, what to do and not to do.
March began our first class blog in learnerblogs, but less than a month later, we moved this to Edublogs which allowed a lot more choices. We learnt about posts, comments, sidebars and widgets. We created avatars and began commenting on our class blog. Some students received their own personal blogs.
By April, we tried to involve parents in our blogs but not very successfully. Something to do better at in 2009. Students improved the look and feel of their own blogs as they had been given admin rights.
In May, some students took part in a student comment challenge and others helped run blogging sessions for teachers in our school. We tried to use only creative commons pictures in our posts.
June was partly holiday time, but when we returned to school we began thinking about what blogging meant to us. We also found out about Wordle and created our own comics using Toondoo.
During July, attribution on photos used in our posts was important. We also learnt about the website Tutpup which we joined as a class so Miss W. could check our progress.
August began the organization for the student blogging competition which Miss W. ran for 10 weeks during our term 3.
For the next three months, there were weekly activities for the blogging competition where students from many countries took part. Students from our class learnt about translating posts written in Portuguese so they could write comments back to these grade 6 students taking part in the competition.
In October, as part of the competition we took part in World Blog Action Day about poverty.
During November, our blog had received over 10,000 visitors, we made Skype calls to USA and Canada and in early December, we were nominated by Sue Waters in the Edublogs Awards for 2008. Sue was helping to run the competition.
WOW, what a year!! I hope my new class in 2009 are ready to start their journey using technology in our classroom.
December 21, 2008 @ 8:23 pm
Hey Miss W
And congratulations for getting 56 votes! I am so happy for you! And you really do deserve it because of your efforts and fabulous posts! It is awesome enough to reach the stage of being nominated! That level is just… spectacular!!!!
CONGRATS TOO ALL OF YOU! What a tough year it is, but you have all worked extremely hard to accomplish all your goals and you have just done brilliant with technology, the best ever this year. Wow… such a surprise to see what you learnt all put together in a post! What you have learnt will never leave you! It will be with you for life!!
Good on you!
P.S So who did win? I am VERY anxious!
Nadine
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January 2, 2009 @ 7:22 pm
I agree with Nadine that you have done very well. To be nominated is a big thing already! All the best for the New Year.
Mrs She
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February 2, 2009 @ 8:26 am
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