It is strange talking to children about something that they have no previous concept of. We are so used to saying “you will remember when” or “you should know this”, so telliing my class about blogging and our class blog was something completely new. Many of the children surprisingly had their own website and used MSN a great deal but nobody had heard of a blog.
Anyway it was our first day back and after a bit of “getting to know you” we spent some time exploring John’s class blog at Sandaig and looking at the empty space that is ours! (well I had popped something on to get us started) The children seemed really interested and keen to start.
So as a first activity they worked on what they think would be some good class rules and then we shared our ideas in SMART Notebook and decided upon the most positive and important to us. Then I just quickly showed them how to blog this as an entry, really quick and simple. They enjoyed seeing their rules published on the blog and John has already commented on it, which I know they will enjoy reading tomorrow – lets hope many more people will comment as I think many are not totally convinced there are millions of possible readers – well maybe!
I think that for the rest of the week we will post work together and explore some safety guidelines – I think we will create some BLOG rules too. I spotted MHetherington’s blog for some ideas for this.