KimP’s Blog

You bet! This “old dog” has learnt many new tricks in the last couple of months, and it’s all because of blogging. John Johnson recommended this as an interesting exercise and so, even though I have only been blogging with my class for a few months I thought I’d give it a go! 

August – set up our class blog, what a learning curve, big thanks to Al and his miniLegends for help and enthusiasm. Spent time with my class looking at class and student blogs, what they wrote about, what made them good/interesting/relevant. Decided on individual blogs for each student, negotiated rules and expectations and began blogging.

September – learnt how to upload photos from our class files to the blog, had our first international comments, and the AllStars were off! Found out about Google Earth and the teaching/learning resources available to use with it – thanks Tom.

October – attended the Global Summit and was blown away by the presentations, the presenters and the discussions that were part of this event. Set up a Flikr account to store photos, but Flikr is unreliable at school (sometimes blocked, then unblocked, then reblocked). 

November – began work on our class wiki as part of the Game2Learn Project we are part of. Quite a few frustrations as wikispaces was blocked, unblocked and blocked again at school. Tried to determine how best to set up the commenting and editing rights, ended up leaving it open as I didn’t expect much “traffic” to the site. 

December – Worked around the blocking of our wiki – its not blocked when teacher logs on, so the kids rotated through my computer adding comments, thoughts and opinions about the Game2Learn project. Learnt about game design using Game Maker and Game2Learn project.  

There, it doesn’t look much, I admit, and it won’t be of interest to anyone but me – very low tech, but it’s a record of my earliest attempts at harnessing a tiny portion of the mighty power of Web 2.0.