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Goodbye LearnerBlogs

mshrm18 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:39:04 +0000

By accident (because I wanted to show some EIT Lecturers student work from TIS and got a suspended message when I tried to access room18tis.learnerblogs.org) I discovered that all learnerblogs need to be moved over to edublogs. Many, many thanks to the “super-speedy-to-reply-Sue-Waters” for sending me the export xml file of our learnerblog – so I have been able to upload all our previous Room18tis learnerblog work onto our exisiting edublog with the same room18tis name.

It’s really handy to still have access to work done with students even when they’re no longer blogging at this address.

Attention Room18 – Need Read

mshrm18 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:22:33 +0000

My friend Mrs Tolisano, from Jacksonville, USA (remember I stayed with her Mum in Buenos Aires?) has written a fabulous post just for you guys!

It’s a simple and very clever guide to commenting on Blogs – this will help us with our literacy goal for next term to read and comment on more blogs during the week.

I’d like you to think about whether we can add to this guide. Add your thoughts below in the comments.

I’ve copied her guide over to here (I hope she doesn’t mind) and I’m following the first rule by acknowledging Mrs Tolisano as the author. That’s a very important thing to do.

Here is a short and simple guide for my elementary age school students.

Acknowledge the author of the blog post.
Let the author know if you agree with him/her and why.
It is also ok to disagree with something, just let the author know why you feel that way.
One word comments are not very useful. Writing just “cool” or “nice” are not very helpful and don’t let the author of the blog post really know what you are thinking.
Always make sure you follow “netiquette”. Think if it is appropriate BEFORE you hit the submit button.
Always be polite . It does not matter if you agree or disagree with what you are reading in a blog. Don’t write anything you would be ashamed of saying to someone’s face. Don’t hurt somebody’s feelings.

Head on Over to Room18TIS & The Adventures of Kawekakea

mshrm18 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:55:58 +0000

Now that learnerblogs has just about as much on offer as edublogs …… and wikispaces is still pretty awesome for teachers and students ……….

We’re shifting most of our Class blogging “Stuff” over to Room18 TIS & The Adventures of Kawekakea

The “hub” of our classroom is our fabulous wikispace: room18tis

Ms H has been making sure that everything here is available over at both of those sites before she finally closes this one down.

Thanks for stopping by every now and again. We really appreciate you taking the time to read what we’re up too!

Young Writers 07

mshrm18 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:04:48 +0000

Mr B and Ms H have made a wiki where teachers from all around the world can add their classroom blogs and/or their students blogs so that other classrooms can read and comment on them. We really want to help start conversations between young writers who are blogging. There is nothing more exciting than the knowledge that you have a real audience – real people reading YOUR blog!

So go ahead and see what students are blogging about and make someone’s day by leaving them a comment! Links are below.

Room18 TIS & Kawekakea (That’s our class writing blog)

Young Writers 07 Wiki