~~ Writing is hard fun. ~ Donald Murray ~~ "The good way to learn is to use it now." ~ Seymour Papert ~~
I love poster images and inspirational quotes. Sometimes they just make my day or encourage me to keep going. Images create emotional responses and so are a powerful addition to our communications. But whose images do we use? I favorited Continue reading Whose image is it?
April is National Poetry Month sponsored by the Academy of American Poets What is poetry? What is a poem? #napowrimo is National Poetry Writing Month! started by poet Maureen Thorson a challenge to write a poem a day that’s write: Continue reading #napowrimo14 is what?
Our students were thrilled this year with an award nomination, and many chose to write thank you comments to our nominator. Most were thoughtful responses that conveyed their appreciation; they wrote from the heart, which gave their writing voice. Our Continue reading Quality Blogging & Commenting Audit Meme
Please take time to welcome our new teacher bloggers from our school. Continue reading Welcome New Bloggers
Consider Create Connect Collaborate Continue reading Family Friendly
A blog comment is your footprint…a path back to you…prepare your path wisely. Continue reading Comment Considerations
“Our Blog: a place to enhance written discourse and media citizenship among students.” What does that mean? How do we explain this to our students? In our writing classroom, we review lessons from these sites: Net Smartz On Guard Online Continue reading Netiquette: Every Day
Page your static or unchanging information in your pages. Continue reading Page Prerogatives
Fifth grade and sixth grade still focus on elaboration in writing. However, we will dabble in applying our elaboration skills on election issues. I hope to introduce them to working together on wiki work to explain 1) How a person Continue reading What’s Next?