Ms. Hayes' Navigators, a fifth grade class blog from New Zealand state, "We will navigate our journey of leadership in our school through service. To be effective leaders we will draw on the virtues of co-operation, excellence, diligence, unity, creativity, enthusiasm and courage. Be our support crew by leaving us a comment." The class has its own photostream at Flickr.
Mrs. Drexler's 3rd grade class Wordpress blog at Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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"We are a 5th grade class that is piloting a 1:1 laptop program using iBook computers. We blog, Skype, make Wiki pages, produce digital videos, podcasts and vidcasts." A Blogmeister project featuring the work of Mr. Brian Crosby's students.
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Mrs. Perry's 4th grade blog features links to numerous pictures of students in class, scans of student work, her weekly web picks, and student contributions.
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From Ms. Gauley's main page: "Here we are! We go to school in Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada. We want to share what we are doing in our classroom. Come and see! "
This blog makes frequent use of BubbleShare to welcome people to the learning of these young students. The teacher says, "This is my 19th year of teaching. I am still fairly new at using blogs and podcasting, but think that it is an exciting way to share what we are doing at school! "
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From the information page of Ms. Mercer's Computer Lab Class blog: "This is blog is to support learning on the Internet at our school. You can find assignments for Ms. Mercer’s Computer Lab class, and links to activities and resources.
Goals of this blog are to help you explore the Internet and the themes and subjects you are studying in your classroom. A blog is different than Web pages, because you don’t just read what’s on the blog, but you get to add to the page, by writing comments."
The blog uses slideshare to go over the rules, what a blog is, and information about the Acceptable Use Policy.
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This is a blog hosted through Blogger. This text from the site banner: "2M's Blog of all that's happening in our classroom. You can read, watch and listen as we share our learning journey - a journey where we 'learn to blog' and 'blog to learn'. Please visit regularly to see what's new and join in the conversation - we'd love for you to be part of our learning."
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The students at Primary 6 at Loirston in Aberdeen, Scotland write regularly on their class blog. They have these blogging rules:• NEVER give out personal information.
• Only use first names.
• Don’t include a name if there is a photograph of that person in the post.
• Report anything that you are worried about to a teacher immediately.
• Do not reply to comments unless you have cleared it first with a teacher.
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The tagline for this Web 2.0 service reads, "Universally the best way to share, search, store, sort and sell your photos online." Zoomer is very much like Flickr. Zoomr is still in beta, meaning they are still heavily in development.
Click this link or the picture above to visit this source.
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YouTube has launched YouTube Remixer, a service that allows users to edit video from within your browser at YouTube itself. This new service is actually powered by Adobe Premiere Express and supports using graphics, text and audio as well as overlays and in-video transitions. This from the site, "If you've ever uploaded from your cell phone, wished for an easy way to add titles and transitions, or just wanted to remix your own videos, Remixer is a great place to play. It lets you assemble your new video in an easy drag-and-drop timeline, and then publish it right back to YouTube. Your original videos will stay exactly the same."
Click this link or the picture above to visit this source.
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A free web standards compliant browser for Windows, and Mac users that was designed and created by Apple, Inc. The browser has many powerful features and is my personal browser of choice.
Click this link or the picture above to visit this source.
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Podcast Central is a collection of over 100 podcasts made by the students, teachers, and administration of Mabry Middle School. This blog serves as an excellent resource for exploring the many different ways podcasts can be used in the school setting and posted in a blog as well as at the iTunes store.
Click this link or the picture at the top to visit the Podcast Central blog.
You may also click on this link or the picture on the bottom to go to Podcast Central at the iTunes Store. To view and download the free podcasts on the iTunes Store, you must have iTunes installed on your computer. iTunes is a free download that runs on both Windows and Mac.
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I must confess being partial to this school website as I set it all up in August, 2005. MabryOnline is actually a collection of over 100 blogs. Even what appears to be the homepage is a blog. The site served as the schools complete web presence from August, 2005 until July, 2007. During that time the site served up over 30,000,000 files to users all over the world. The site is no longer the official web presence for the school but remains up as an example of best practices for the profession.
The site contains hundreds of digital media files created by the students, teachers, and administration at the school. After seeing the students' work, visitors came from around the world to meet with the students at Mabry to learn how they too could replicate these accomplishments in their own school settings.
Click this link or the picture above to visit this source.
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This school's web presence is in fact a blog maintained by their principal and edublogger, Mr. Tim Lauer. Links on the homepage include: About, Calendar, Principal Notes, Curriculum, Classroom Notes, Lunch, Music, Partners, PPS, and PTA.
Click this link or the picture above to visit this source.
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