Test bloggers starting Thursday
So I met with the teacher who has agreed to have his fifth grade class test this blogging idea. He is going to use the NSD blog feature of his class web page and secure it with a password and post a couple of questions for the students to answer using the comment feature. For the fifth grade (elementary) this is more practical for the teacher with only 25 students. Eventually, he would like each student to begin a blog to replace the current paper Reading Response Journals that he currently totes around to read and reply to students. The student's individual blogs will be perfect for this purpose.
Problems with teachers blogging
Teachers either have no extra time to blog in their day or week OR they have no access to their blog sites at school so they have to do it at home. And who likes to do more work when they get home??
Therefore, getting feedback is difficult...it is actually easier for them to e-mail a reply back to my e-mail reminding them to blog... so now I have e-mail messages to keep organized!
Therefore, getting feedback is difficult...it is actually easier for them to e-mail a reply back to my e-mail reminding them to blog... so now I have e-mail messages to keep organized!
test bloggers coming soon!
Today I talked with Megan's teacher and we are going to try and have the kids keep an electronic math journal with a blog...so I have a little work to do:
*IRB training and form
*get access to edublogs or some other NSD approved blog site
*figure out how/who will set up the blogs (kids or teachers)
*create a first lesson to teach the kids about blogging responsibly, how to do it, and what to blog about
* whatever else we think of
This class is 5th grade so it will be interesting to see how it works on the lower end of the age spectrum! I'm excited to go in the classroom and help out too!
*IRB training and form
*get access to edublogs or some other NSD approved blog site
*figure out how/who will set up the blogs (kids or teachers)
*create a first lesson to teach the kids about blogging responsibly, how to do it, and what to blog about
* whatever else we think of
This class is 5th grade so it will be interesting to see how it works on the lower end of the age spectrum! I'm excited to go in the classroom and help out too!
I made this graph at the Create A Graph site ( http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx ) and e-mailed it to myself!! I could have saved it too....or even better I should put it in a drop box on drop.io!! I could have put cool labels and legends on the graph if I had real data that I wanted to tell a story, but I was just testing what it looked like and what I could do with it!
drop.io
Check out drop.io as a place to put files so you don't have to submit files via e-mail. Saves using a USB drive... free, make lots of drop boxes... I need to put all my employment files on there so I can access everywhere.
Fathom surveys
Discovering how to make drop down lists in the surveys would help with survey data and then the data would require less time to massage it. Don's survey had some random asnwers, even when he put suggested answers in the text of the question.