Susan Gaboriau

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.

I was introduced to Twitter about a year ago. I was real excited about learning something new. I made my account and I got started. I started adding some of my friends and co-workers. I would log in once a day and everyday it was the same thing. Someone would post where they were eating lunch, someone else would post about their shopping trip, and then there were those that were just hanging out at home or complaining. Which was fine, but I did not understand all the fuss. Why was everyone so excited to hear about what everyone was doing every minute of the day? Needless to stay I stopped using Twitter. I thought it was a waste of time. If I wanted to know this information I would just pick up the phone and and talk to the person. Then one day I was on a friends website and saw that she used Twitter. I was a shocked, it was not like her to waste time so I decided to ask her about it. She introduced me to an entire different world in Twitter. Teachers discussing, learning, sharing, and