A Teacher’s Thoughts

Last year I began using a blogging engine to run my class web site. That single change allowed me to meet my goal of maintaining an updated class website. Prior to using a blogging engine, I was constantly dealing with layout, FTP and other issues. In other words a blog allowed my [...]

My students have not fully begun blogging yet, although they comment regularly on my science class blog, as well as two other class blogs. As we complete setting up student blogs and as students begin blogging on the ISS07 site I want to help them make the transition from commenting to posting. I [...]

Yesterday, Diane Hammond and Susan Stiff of the Yes-I-Can Science program came to my school to do some presentations and hands-on activities with our eighth graders. The experience was incredible for these students on a number of levels. The academics and learning about space science and exploration was fantastic. But hidden behind [...]

What a great day. My students are so very excited to join the Yes I Can Science International Space Station 2007 project. The kids worked so hard today to get logged in, begin updating their profiles and reading previous blog posts. I have emphasized to them that we are coming into this [...]

This morning thirteen staff members here at KMS sat down to begin their journey into the world of blogging. As we went along and I listened to the discussion and heard the questions I couldn’t help but think of David Warlick’s K12 Online Pre Conference Keynote.
Walls are coming down…
David Warlick, K12 Online [...]