You absolutely need to take a look at the blogs being written by other people in the class for the colonization project. There blogs can be found at these links:
There is a lot of very good research and some very good writing on these blogs. I encourage you to take a look at them and leave a comment for the characters who are keeping them.
What interesting blogs about colonization around the world. I have linked this as an example of a student blog project on my own blog. We were to find good examples of projects and I chose yours. Nice research and ideas!
What a great project.
Congrats
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What a great example of student blogging. I am currently taking a grad course on Web2.0 technologies and I have assigned to find an example of a student blogging project that I found to be exemplary. This assignment on colonization is outstanding. You can find a link to my blog where I discuss this project at http://fbcoachwil.edublogs.org/2008/01/26/blog-project-inspiration/
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Thanks for sharing this, I love the idea of using a blog to have students write in first person narrative like this! I am going to be adding this to what I do with my middle school social studies classes.
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