Class Blog Idea #4 Debate / Discuss
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“Students in Years 5-7 should each have a laptop for use at school.”
What Do You Think?
Do you agree or disagree?
Give some reasons to back this up.
Class Blog Idea #3 Pattern Puzzles
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What Comes Next?
Below are 5 different number patterns.
Choose one of them and write a comment that includes:
- Your name (first name only)
- the pattern you choose
- the next three numbers in the pattern
(1) 1, 3, 8, 18, 38, …, …, …,
(2) 301, 289, 277, …, …, …,
(3) 1, 4, 9, 61, 52, …, …, …,
(4) 1, 8, 27, 64, …, …, …,
(5) 1020, 500, 240, …, …, …,
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Class Blog Idea #1 Verbs in Action
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A verb is an action word and there is quite a lot of action in the photo above.
Can you think of at least 6 verbs to describe the action in the football photo?
Click on ‘comment’ and type them in – remember to put your name.
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Blogs and Blogging
This post was written for a PD Session
Here are a collection of blogs that you might find interesting. Spend 30 minutes browsing through some of them.
Note that most blog posts aren’t too long – educational bloggers understand that teachers are time poor but do want to do professional reading.
If you find one you like, add a comment below, name the blog and say what you like about it.
Teacher / Subject Blogs
Maths With Mr B link ………. Langwitches link ……….Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day link
Hey Jude link ……….Teacher Lab (Science) link ……….Alison Hall’s Blog (Music) link
Tom Barrett link ……….The Whiteboard Blog link ……….Teaching Challenges link
Professional Blogs
Stories From School link ……….Joanne Jacobs link ……….Classroom 2.0 link
GoogleDocs Blog link ……….The Principal’s Page link ……….The Tempered Radical link
Classroom Blogs
Miller’s English 10 Classroom Blog link ……….Technology In Our Classroom link
Mrs Hossack’s First Graders link ……….Mrs Trefz’s Fifth Grade Blog link ……….The Tillis Tribune link
Look What’s Happening in Room 102 link ……….Piazza Mannino, 23 link
2km Leopold Primary School link ……….Grade 2 link ……….Room 5 At Work link ……….6KF link
Long List of Primary Blogs link ……….English Teaching blogs list link ……….Miss T’s Talented Texans link
Student Blogs
Jamie’s Blog link
Emily’s Blog link
Alexei’s Blog link
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Feedly Groovy
A new year, a new blog and let’s start with a new web app. Thanks to Judy for twittering about Feedly. I started reading blogs about a year ago and really liked visiting the actual blog site due to the visual experience – there is a reason why people choose their themes and widgets, isn’t there!
The trouble with that method was that I had to remember to visit them regularly to see any updates.
After NECC08, I finally succumbed to an RSS reader. The first one I tried I hated (can’t even remember what it was), it was just full of unformatted text and no visuals. Later I tried Google reader which I liked a lot more and then moved onto using Google Reader in iGoogle. I was quite happy with it as I could check my feeds and twitter in the one window and the feeds looked a lot nicer and much closer to the real thing.
For the past few days I’ve been using Feedly. I love the magazine format with the side bar that lists the blog names and how many posts for each blog. Below that, it shows the blogroll of the blog that is selected. I’ve already added several more feeds due to this.
It’s easy to use, it looks nice and I’m much more likely to read more blog posts. There are a few things I’m not sure about: I can’t get my head around the ’spring cleaning’ button and how to get my feeds into categories.
Feedly adds a button to Firefox and I think it is popping up some other functions (on a thin left side bar) when you are on a blog page – not game to press those buttons yet in case I accidentally spam my PLN.
As a feed reader I would reccommend it highly – but warning, it may drastically increase the number of blogs you subscribe to.
