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We Got an Award!

I am writing to let you know that the members of the
RTEACHER listserv have awarded you “The Miss Rumphius
Award.” We present this award for your impressive
ideas for how to use a weblog to support classroom
literacy at your Edinger House blog site at
http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/
Members of the RTEACHER listserv present the Miss
Rumphius Award to educators who [...]

Third Grade Guest Bloggers

Today we went over to the First Program (our K-3 lower school) and helped our third grade buddies create posts on our blogs about their relationship with a school in New Orleans. The posts are really wonderful — do check them out!

“Half a Sixpence” - list of characters

From another production: http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1023

“Half A Sixpence”

Your next blog post is to be a response to (or review of) the MS muslcal, “Half a Sixpence,” which you are going to see this afternoon. The musical is based on the Novel “Kipps” by H.G. Wells, Music and Lyrics by David Heneker, Book by Beverley Cross, Directed by Kevin Gallagher, Choreographed by Emily [...]

Email Accounts: Rules for Class 4 License

You may only e-mail teachers (ask their permission first)
No bad language
Don’t say anything over e-mail that you wouldn’t say in person
Don’t write anything you wouldn’t say to a large group
You may only e-mail teachers if those teachers have given you permission or have e-mailed you first
No sharing passwords
For Class 4, your accounts will be 30 [...]

Commenting Assignments

To be sure that each student receives at least three comments on his/her first post, I randomly* chose three students for each of you to comment on. By all means do more if you have time — try to do a variety so everyone gets a bunch of comments!
MB1 will comment on EC, OF, [...]

Now Read and Comment!

Read a classmate’s oral history book.
Find their blog.
Click on Login and enter your username and password.
Click on View site at the top of the page to read your peer’s posts.
For the post on which you would like to comment, click on the Comments link directly under it.
Scroll down to write your comment in the field. [...]

Welcome!

As some of you know, I have a blog, educating alice. Blogs, as Betsy explained to you when she visited us last month, are web logs — the two words became mushed together and, voila — now they are called blogs! And guess what, blogs are pretty similar to the composition book journals [...]





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