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Hello Folks! Download this Sports Widget and copy and paste the code into a widget in your sidebar, to keep up to date with who is winning the Spirit Trophy….GO PUMAS!!!!! This week Edublogs is asking you to get creative!!! Choose at least two of the sites below to visit, and write a post about what you did on the site. Remember to include a Once you have visited and found two you have enjoyed, make sure you include a link in your sidebar recommending the site. Head back to the participants page to see what other students have enjoyed, making sure you leave a comment on their blog. Music and audio
Science
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This year Blog Action Day coincides with World Food Day, a time that focuses the world’s attention on food, something we all have in common…..It occurred on October 16th.
Let’s use the information and task that BAD have set to participate in this Challenge. The Challenge this year was to write a post about food…. There is so much to say about food. We use food to mark times of celebration and sorrow. Lack of access to food causes devastating famines, whilst too much is causing a generation of new health problems. It can cost the world, or be too cheap for farmers to make a living. T Food can cooked by highly skilled chefs with inventive flair, or mass produced and delivered with speed at the side of road. It can be incredibly healthy or complete junk and bad for your health. It can taste delicious or be a locals only delicacy.he way we companies produce food and drinks can provide important jobs for communities or be completely destructive to habitats and local food producers. Food can give us energy to get through the day or contain ingredients that gives us allergic reactions. Food is important to our culture, identity and daily sustenance and the team at Blog Action invite you to join us to talk about food. Make sure you include at least 2 pictures about food in your post. Guess what my favorite food is??? Some topics suggestions for your Blog Action Day post.
What a week! Please go to the following Edublogs link We watched the video on digital footprints….write a post about your digital footprint and embed the following video in a blog post. Please also complete in the same post Activity 5. What is digital citizenship?…telling your readers about Digital Citizenship – what you should do rather than what you shouldn’t do. Let’s get to it!!!!! Once completed go back to the participant page and comment on two students blogs Wow. What a week! We have made some great inroads to having some of the best school blogs I have seen. Well done everyone for updating your “About Me page”. As an update the following should have occurred….Your About Me page should be updated, an Avatar should have been created and you should have visited an left comments on as many students blogs from around the world as humanly possible for you! This week, we can take a small breath as one of the tasks is to create a few widgets…the first widget is to see where visitors are coming from, the second is to visit widgetbox and add a few of your own. If you still don’t have a clustrmap, I suggest
addingwhos amung us or revolver map. They seem to be the fastest to get on. The next task is to tell our friends a little about Shanghai and the festivals we have here, such as Mooncake Festival and ChineseNew Year. Tell us what happens on these holidays in Shanghai using Audioboo. Audioboo is the fastestway possible to record your voice and embed it to your blog. Sign up for a free account, record your voice….give it a title and then embed it on your blog! Have a listen to Pepo’s. He did a great job of recording his voice and embedding it….well done Pepo! Welcome all!
We have some important steps to keep up with the Edublogs challenge that started 2 days ago. Let’s all register our own blogs at the following link to make sure we come up on the list. Go to the following link to Register as a Student. Once you have registered, head to the first Challenge titled All about you, here you will complete several activities….the first is to edit your ABOUT PAGE….. then create an Avitar, then visit 10 other blogs…whew! A lot of work!!! Let’s get to it! Make sure you go to the pages tab and edit the page titled “ABOUT”….tell us about yourself! Give us some information about yourself that allows all participants to learn about you! You may want to include a link to the Edublog Challenge on your blog to easily access the information. Remember, because we are in China, you may not be able to visit any sites attached to “edublogs” no worries though, I’ll keep you up to date and also visiting other blogs out there. One of the tasks is to create an avatar…use the following links to create your own….. Any age can use these avatar sites:
AND………. The last part is to visit 10 blogs and leave some comments. Go to the list of participants page here and visit some students around the world…Look at their about page and leave a comment…GO FOR IT!!!!!! As part of our commitment to meeting the needs of all staff at Shanghai American School and adhering to the newly created Standards and Benchmarks, please find a short survey for every grade level below. This will become a guide as to what skills you would like to focus on, and what areas I can collaborate with you on as our computer roll out is complete next year. If you are a specialist, please fill out for at least one of your grade levels. Consider choosing the grade level you have or wish to explore technology with in detail. It might be good in the text box at the end of the survey to name your subject so we can target your needs.
Also attached is the Horizon report…..a fantastic read! And the NETS which our S & B’s are taken from. A launch of our official Standards and Benchmarks will take place in the near future…… I had a great time reviewing 2 CMS systems as part of my PSU course. 2 videos are part of this prezi….make sure you click on the videos within Prezi to gain a better understanding of the systems being discussed. For Elementary, if, as the topic stated we only had the choice between Moodle and Blackboard, the winner would be Blackboard. I still though am a firm believer in Wordpress as a one stop shop, especially in Elementary, for the authentic audience and web 2.0 experience…….enjoy! It really is one of the easiest ways to bookmark and share information, not only with your colleagues, but with classes of students too. Delicious has been around for years now and still ranks as one of the top ten web 2.0 tools. Imagine having your bookmarks displayed as a widget on your blog for students to easily access. Imagine bookmarking something and not having to copy and paste it into an email to share with friends! Once you register for an account, why don’t you search and expand your network by adding “simonpower”? Also up and running is “5kpbookmarks”, Kimbra Power. You’ve got to love the “in Plain English” series of videos…… |
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