The SHA 5th Graders will have a blog for the
2013-2014 school year. We use a blogging
platform called Blogger, which many of you are familiar with. Blogger is part of the Google network.
About Our Blog
If you are unfamiliar with blogs, they are like online
journals. Blogs are essentially websites where administrators (in our case Mrs.
Ambrosio, Morah Sonya and students) can add posts which are displayed in reverse
chronological order.
There are panels on the side (called widgets) where you can
find past posts, recent comments, and more.
We will use our blog to add information about what is
happening in 5th Grade and to connect with parents and hopefully,
other classes around the world.
Our blog address is: http://shagrade5.blogspot.com/
Why Blog?
Blogs are great because you can share things with a wide
audience. Instead of just the teacher seeing the students’ work, all of the
parents can view the work and leave comments. Having a blog helps to strengthen
home-school partnerships and
build a sense of classroom community.
Using blogs is also a great way for students to improve
their ICT (information and communication technology) skills and get experience
using an emerging technology.
Students improve their literacy skills while blogging and it
a fantastic opportunity for students to learn about appropriate online
behaviors.
One of the most rewarding experiences from blogging is the
global connections we make. We are hoping to communicate and even Skype with
our blogging buddies from all over the world. Blogs flatten our classroom
walls!
The diagram below summarizes the most powerful benefits of blogging:
Safety
Internet safety is of upmost important to us. Through
blogging, the students in 5th Grade will have the opportunity to
learn about appropriate online behaviors in an authentic and supervised
setting.
The following guidelines have been established to ensure the
safety of our students when blogging.
- Students will only be identified by their first name.
- Posts written by students are checked by Mrs. Ambrosio before they are published on the blog.
- Posts will not include personal details about students such as addresses and family information.
- All comments submitted have to be approved by Mrs. Ambrosio or Morah Sonya before they are included on the blog.
- All students must have parental permission to have their photo and work posted on the blog.
- Parents who leave comments are asked to use their first name only so as not to identify their child.
- All students must abide by the blogging rules that we have established.
If you have any other questions about the SHA 5th
Grade Blog, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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