I am so excited about all the new things I am learning through these tutorials. I am also so excited that we had an extra week to play around with them.
Classrooms across the district have been sharing and collaborating through Hangouts. One of our fifth grade teachers wrote a grant for a weather station and invited all fifth grade classroom in the district to check it out through Google Hangouts! We had four classes participate! The students from the other classes were excited to see other fifth graders in the district and had great question! What a great way to bring the district together!
In April I started using kidblog with my 4th grade class. They love it! They have been having so much fun just sending one another messages and sharing photos. Many of them have started posting their reading response on the blog. I am so proud of them! I wish I would have started this earlier in the year. So far they have been able to write what they want and just communicate with one another. Next year I would really like to use it more for assignments and getting them to discuss what we are learning in class. If anyone has any advice on how they are using kidblog in the classroom I would really love to hear it.