Why Should Students Blog?

Hi Scholars! Since blogging became popular in the last several years, there has been debate in the academic community as to its benefits for students. I think blogging is a powerful that will increase your knowledge, presentation skills, and your critical thinking. A fellow educator, Rachel Boyd, created a podcast to express her opinions on why students should blog. Let's watch it now. Afterward, we will talk about your feelings and questions about blogging.



Thanks to Rachel Boyd @ nz_edublabberings for sharing her thoughts and expertise.

Video Letter to the President

Upper Academy scholars are watching this video right now. We are comparing and contrasting our own experiences at BLCS (and other schools) to the experiences of these students in this video. So many of us wonder where they are now.

6B Will Be Successful!

Hello Scholars! As a reminder for what we need to do to maximize our learning time, I created a word cloud using your letters. Click here to view it. Let's use this word cloud to help us focus on the positive!

6A Will Succeed!

Hello Scholars! Thank you for completing your assignment on how you will succeed in technology class. I analyzed your answers and created a word cloud of the most popular answers. I will make everyone a copy in case you need reminders. SHINE on!! The world cloud is here!

8B's plans for the weekend!

Hello Scholars! The entire class collaborated to create a Wordle about our weekend plans. Here it is...

8B Goals for 2010-20111

Hello Scholars! I used the results from your survey to see what you, as a class, want to accomplish this year. The responses ranged from "ummm" to "everything". There was no wrong answer. Thank you for sharing your hopes and dreams with me. Click here for the Wordle that illustrates what you wrote.

Now tell me...what is important to 8B this year?

Happy to See 8A Again!

I have not seen 8A in two weeks. It was great to meet with them today, discuss our rules of engagement, and talk about what will do next week. 8A will be taking the Survey Monkey survey about their interests next week.

Leopard Wordle Redux

Hi Scholars! I loved your reaction to the wordle of your computer usage. Here is a link for the one we did in class on Friday. Today we will finish our discussion of the uses of a word cloud and why certain words appear the way they do. I also want to walk you through the steps of creating a wordle. Thank you in advance for your participation!

Wordle Word Cloud Survey Results, 8B

Welcome back scholars! You already took a survey using a Web 2.0 tool called Survey Monkey. Thank you all so much for participating in the survey and sharing your interests and uses of the computer with me. I created a word cloud using another Web 2.0 tool called Wordle. Click here to see what the word cloud looks like. We are going to discuss your observations on the word cloud as a group. I am interested in knowing why you think the words are different sizes and how you might use this to share information.