So I’ve embarked on my first adventure with guiding students in blogging. I’ve watched one group of boys walk into my room with a clear vision of exactly what their blog was going to be about. They are able to come in on “Tech Day” and get down to business immediately on [...]
Today in the afternoon I had the privilege of teaching some of my peers in the Elementary building the wonders of Edublogs. In a 2 hour session we managed to set everyone up with their new blog and post a test entry. Templates were chosen and contact information was entered. Over [...]
I’ve been thinking for a while now that I ought to consolidate my many web presences as a teacher. Today I’m finally beginning the process. www.mrsmuench.com will now link directly to my Edublogs teacher account. I need to continue thinking about exactly how to format things in my new blog headquarters. I think this will [...]
This list of questions was posted by Vicki Davis on her blog. Here are my best attempts at honest answers:
Do you spend any time talking about proper methods of e-mail?
Not really because I teach music to grades kindergarten through 5th. The kids that are really most ready to hear about this (my 4th and 5th [...]
A few years ago at a conference a presenter gave me that idea of keeping a “Smile File”. It’s a file that I put encouraging notes or articles in so that I can refer to them when I’m feeling down or like I’m not quite sure of my teaching potenial. I can reach in a [...]
The hubby is trying to be funny. He makes me laugh. Maybe he’ll make you laugh too. Perhaps a new title for my blog is on the approaching horizon. I’ll have to think about this one. What are your thoughts?
David Warlick brought up something that’s been floating around my head for awhile today. If no one reads your blog what use is it? At this point I have about 1 reader, so I mainly blog to myself. So I use my blog to express myself and also as a handy list of reminders for [...]
This week I instructed the 5th graders on how to get to their blogs. So far I’ve taught 2 of the 3 sections of 5th grade. The goal of this week’s class is just to get them the directions to get to them not to actually work on an entry. But so far about 1/2 [...]
Today is the last day of the Iroquois County Fair. My husband bought booth space to display his Grasshopper line of lawn mowers. So I’ve been out here every day sitting behind the table.
On Thursday night we discovered that a local radio station, WGFA, was offering free WiFi!!! So on [...]
