Monthly Archives: October 2009

Thing #3-Building Your Blog

Here is a picture of my family taken in Mackinaw last year. My Husband, Ken, had just finished racing in the 100th running of the Chicago to Mackinaw sailboat race. My son, David, is 11 here. It was one of those picture perfect days!
I had to put some thought into which sites I visit enough to [...]

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Thing #2 Part B

Each blog had it’s own feel and reflected the teacher that had created it. Of course I gravitated tot he early educational settings. In these blogs I felt you were truley invited into teh classrooms of some very creative teachers.
I was very comfortable in Mrs. Myrel’s First Grade Blog (It felt almost like physically visiting [...]

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Thing #2 Part A- How Are Others Using Blogs?

Blogging is just one more way to stay in touch with my parents, or so I thought untill I read the Wiki page on Educational Blogging. Of course (palm to head) why hadn’t I thought of that? Why not use it in a more “interactive” way. My only worry is that not all my kids [...]

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Thing #1– What is Web 2.0?

I got goose bumps watching the Youtube segment. Why couldn’t I be in my young 20’s with all this at my finger tips?? Wait…I do have it all at my finger tips- I just wasn’t rasied tapping a messeage to my bff- I have a learning curve and if I want to keep up with [...]

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Hello world!

Hello World! I feel so connected when I blog! 
 I started blogging last year so I could answer the parents of my first graders, many of them were emailing me through the school email address, probably sitting at a computer at work. I thought I could provide a place were questions could be answered at their convenience…blogging [...]

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