Excellence and Imagination

PB Wiki has made some changes recently and updated their service. Cool widgets like YackPacks let you install a walkie – talkie right on your wiki, you can also embed YouTube videos, insert a calendar and a Bubbleshare slideshow. So the next time you are thinking about a form of representation for a project, it [...]

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All of the work that you did for the Blogicians last week has not gone unnoticed. They have responded to your posts with thanks and some ideas of their own.
Eddie responded to Darren’s post.
Johnny wrote to Dustin and Josh.
Victoria wrote to Ashley H.
Mary thanked Ashley M.
Mia wrote to April.
Emmy talked about April.
M.V. talked about Derek’s [...]

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What strategies
do you use in blogging?
How does blogging
help you as a writer? As a reader? As a publisher?
What are some tips
on how to proofread on a blog?
When you post how
do you get the ideas to post about your topic?
What is your favourite
blog, your favourite post, [...]

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Here is a link to a short podcast (5 minutes 48 seconds) that several gentlemen in Mrs. Baber’s class in Virginia recorded telling about International Teen Life.
A good introduction to the topic and clean well recorded audio.
Good job boys. Looking forward to hearing what else you have to say.

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Mrs. Baber is a quick, quick lady!
After our live Skype call on Monday with the kids in Virginia and the kids in Cartegena, she has posted an mp3 file that we can download and listen to, a recording of this call.
You can find it here to listen to.

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Now that we’ve had our first Skype call, now that you have student bloggers from the other classes in your Bloglines account that you are reading regularly, it is time to move along.
On the wiki for this project, a few people have placed ideas for projects. What are you interested in doing? Look at the [...]

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The Purpose:
The purpose of this project is to have teenagers from different locations around the globe exchange their thoughts and perceptions of what their lives are like. By viewing, reading, and listening to the perspectives of others from around the globe, they will gain a greater perception of the similarities and differences of people’s lives [...]

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Just so you know, I took part in a Skype conversation on Thursday night for about an hour with a number of educators from across Canada and the U.S. The topic of conversation was blogging and much of our time our together focused on our blogs and the work that we do on them.
They [...]

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Finally we can post a link to Josh’s blog so here it is.
As well, I’ve recently gotten an email from a teacher in Thessaloniki Greece. He has several of his students blogging and they are looking for comments. Their blogs can be found here.
I’ve added these links to the side bar as well.

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I have two questions that I want you to think about and leave your comments on:
1.) Is blogging different from “regular” writing that happens on paper? If you think it is different, describe how. If it is not different, why not? How is it the same as writing on paper?
2.) The second question I have [...]

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