Now we are all up and running with our blogs I think it would be a good time to get the parents involved. Parents can get involved with our blogs in four ways: they can comment on a post on your blog, comment on a post on the class blog, write a post on your blog, or write a post to publish on the class blog. If your parents wish to publish a post on the class blog they can write it on the Contact Me page and send it to me. Of course, we are quite experienced in blogging now, so we’ll have to pass on our knowledge of how to blog, and the correct way to write a post or a comment on a blog (while keeping within our online safety rules). Pass this on and let’s see if we can get our parents blogging.

Now we are over all our recent technical problems we can get right back into it. During our English rotations each group must make sure that every member has at least one post and some work on their School Work page. If everyone does, then partner up and co-edit someone else’s post. If that has been done then have a read of some of the blogs linked to my blog and leave a polite comment on one (be aware, though, that the schools in the northern hemisphere are about to start their long break). If you are from the UK (or anywhere else for that matter) see if your old school has a blog and leave a comment on it.

Well done to everyone for making our assembly run so smoothly. Great work!

The Assembly Hippie Band

Well done to Tahlia, Jasmine, Bradley, Lauren and Lolly who have made an impressive effort to update their blogs. The Edublogs App is now available for the iPhone, so you can now post on the go!

As we are unable to use the computers at school for a week or two, due to the new servers being installed, this challenge will have to be completed from home. Your task is to create a line symmetry shape during our rotations and take a photo. We can use my computer to download this to your flash drive then you can take it home and upload it onto the Home page (where you make your posts) rather than the School Work page of your blog – with a short write-up, of course.

This one is more for your parents, or even other teachers, but have a read if you want and let me know what you think. Is homework useful? Make your own mind up after reading this paper by Alfie Kohn.

We had a comment from Georgie at Penbank School. The school sounds really different and interesting. Have a look and leave a polite comment if you wish (there’s one about horses Lolly!).

Year 6 at Heathfield Primary School from Bolton in the UK have recently been doing their SAT tests, similar to our NAPLAN. If you want to comment on their tests you can do so here.

This time it’s all about tidying up. We all need to cooperate and collaborate to help each other reach the same stage with our blogs. By now we should all have a stable theme with a copyright free header and background. We should also have 3 extra pages: About Me, Glogs and School Work. You may have other pages but ask me first. Widgets are next. You should at least have Pages, Recent Posts, Clustr Map and Text; the Text widget should have a personal introduction. Finally, your blog needs recent content on all of the pages and you should post a comment on at least 3 other blogs (not just your close friends’ blogs). If you’ve done all this then search out someone who hasn’t and work with them til they are up to date. Deadline – THIS WEEK! As an extra, those who finish need to find a blog from overseas and post a polite comment, but again, check with me that the blog is ok to post a comment on.   🙂