Snow Day

Well, it's another big winter and Maine, so we are at home with another snow day. The students are wrapping up their Comic Challenge projects. I will review these and post a slide show on my website as soon as these are edited and ready for the web.

On another note, we have had a few classes join Blogger.com. I would like to recognize Mr. Harris, Ms. Switzer and Mrs. Kaknes' classes for joining the Web 2.0 and starting a class blog. The students have been very excited to start these projects. I have seen some extended learning first hand as students from Ms. Switzer's class have started online conversations from outside of the classroom. Great work!

Creating Your Own Blog

It's fast and simple to create your own blog. You can sign up for a free account here on Blogger.com. First think of what you would write about? Would you be able to write something new on your topic each week? Each day? Who would you like to hear from in your blog?

If you make your blog interesting, you may get readers and comments from all over the world. Make sure you ask your parents before you sign up and then let me know what your blog address is, so that I can link it and follow your blog.

Blogging

Today a 4th grade class will be responding to their friend in Paris, France via a blog. They will also setup their very own classroom blog to report out to the world what they are learning. As part of the blog, the students will also be writing newspaper articles and broadcast a live news show for the school. This news broadcast will be available on the web shortly after production on January 30th. Check back to see what this class has been working on.

Comic Life Challenge

As I thought we did have a snow day yesterday, so school was closed for the day and nobody came into the computer lab. 

This month I have setup a challenge for the students. Previously, I had created two comics a month; Where in the World is Mr. Lawson? and The Adventures of Mr. Lawson. The first comic was a geography lesson for the students where I presented clues to a country I had visited. The students tried to figure out which country it was and either emailed or wrote a note to me with their guess. The Adventures of Mr. Lawson talked about the time of year and introduced staff members within the elementary schools to explain more about their programs. The challenge to the students is to create their own comic. A winner from each grade level will be chosen and posted on the web page. Good luck to all the students!

Travel Blog

I have created one blog before on my trip across the United States this summer with my sister. We took US route 90 for most of the trip, but found time to stop along the way from Boston to Seattle. Check it out at; http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Lawson

First Blog

Today I am just setting up the blog. The students are back in school here in York, but snow is in the forecast for tomorrow. We'll have to wait and see if we are in session tomorrow or not.