A few notes about setting up this blog. I chose to use Blogger for a few reasons:
1. I am familiar with the site after following a friend's trip to New Zealand last summer.
2. The format is very similar to Constant Contact, an e-mail newsletter service I used for a time.
3. I like the security setting to limit viewers. I am investigating the idea of using this service with my students and wanted to try it out here.
4. Let's be honest...there is a pretty template with colours that I like! :)
The set-up was unbelievably easy. On my second visit to the site I followed the steps and set up my own blog. I appreciate that I can return later and change settings, and add and delete options as I wish. Nothing on the Internet seems to be static, and I love that!
I am very curious to see how my view and use of my own blog changes once others start viewing and replying. I think it will be very motivating as a writer. I am also anxious to see my classmates' blogs, and to discover what is enticing or engaging for me on their blogs. There must be an art to setting up a great blog, and I'm quite sure I don't yet know what it is! But, if little old me can succesfully get a blog started, then the tool is pretty user friendly!!
Monday, September 15, 2008
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I'll look forward to hearing more about your blog 'experiment' with your grade six students. It seems like a blog for each student will be a really good solution to some of those writing challenges that you talk about--and make good use of the technology that is available in your school!
It helps to redirect thought. And I feel that I am:)
Everything works as you write, probably because it is not a theory, but your personal experience.
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