Tuesday, October 14, 2008

What's a blog? and Security

A blog is a quick and easy way to share written ideas and pictures with other people on a website. It is so easy that I know of at least one student in our class who has her own blog to write about the books she enjoys. www.blogger.com is a great site to set up a blog for your family or self. (Kids, ask your parents first!)

Just some info about our blog. This blog was set up as unsearchable by Google so it shouldn't be available to the public but I still want it to be safe. I will not be posting last names of students or identifying details as a safety precaution. If you want to share this blog with family members, please feel free to do so. 

I'm looking into posting things like book report information and spelling lists, but haven't found an easy way to do it yet. Hopefully, this will be coming soon. If you have any suggestions to make this blog more useful to you, please let me know.

2 comments:

Jenny said...

Does the class have the same spelling list or are there different ones for groups of children in the class? I thought you might be able to post the spelling list at the bottom of the blog in list format (add the gadget). It would require you typing that in once a week. Same with upcoming book report info. That way, it doesn't interfere with your posts, it will be there on the side until you update it. If you ever need help doing that sort of thing, I have way too much time on my hands to blog and would be willing to help.

Miss Thompson's Class said...

Thanks for the ideas. I'll see what I can come up with.