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Bill Gaskins
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- Cavers Bay Middle School
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- I am an instructional technology coach at Carvers Bay Middle School. This is my 20th year teaching.
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You are now live on the Edublogger Directory. Top of the list as I type :-)
Hope it will prove a useful resource
Patricia
Have just been enjoying reading your blog and was wondering if you would be interested in adding your blog details to the new International Edubloggers Directory at http://edubloggerdir.blogspot.com?
Patricia
Sue
A Really Different Place
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Durffs class blog
Thanks for sharing with me! If I used WordPress, did you assign each student a site that was just theirs? Or are you able to assign blog pages within a classroom blog page. This is the part I don't understand. May be you can point me to some classroom samples to look at...
Blogging is new to me. So I ventured off into my own blogging site at www.bloggingonthebay.com. I am using as a professional development site for the teachers I am working with. I appreciate any advise or ideas you can give me. Or point me in a direction to learn more...
First of all there are many people out there doing a lot more blogging with students than I am, but here is what we do.
First of all this is a team approach, combined with my language arts teacher. For our teacher blogs we use wordpress that I host myself. Install is easy and the hosting fits well with other things I do. We use four blogs for students, with about 20 kids in each one. They are set as contributors so that any content has to be approved. Although there are some who disagree with this practice, blogging is new to our school and district and this allows us to do what we need to do. Using four blogs was arbitrary, balancing time clicking from site to site with giving students space. Our kids this year have not launched these yet. Again we use wordpress but for this we are using http://learnerblogs.org.
If you have the time for management, installing worpress mu might be a good solution. Install is easy and you can give blogs to anyone who wants one.
We use wikispaces quite a bit too. I have used PBwiki on my own servers in the past and this works well too.
If your teachers want some of my students to read and comment with their students let me know.
I just spent some time on your blog. Wow, you may be new as you say, but you have added a great deal of resources in a short time. It looks great.
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