July 9

I am already learning so much on the first day of class. Blogging seems to be a good way to record student's journaling and I think there can be many applications. Is this blogging site free, or would my school district need to subscribe? It will be good to know the process of stetting up a blog for each individual group of classroom students. This is something I would love to introduce during the first few weeks of school to really get some students interested in doing more writing and to have more writing practice. Students could access the site from home too and that would be very convenient for them. I did have some glitches so far though. When I posted my survey for the online survey/quizzes, I posted it and it took me to the surveymonkey homepage. I wasn't sure if it has been saved to the "Evaluating Resources" folder. Also, when I tried to access blogger.com from home, it would not take my passcode (thought I might have inserted a wrong user name), but after I changed my password it let me in. It asked for a google account before the attempt to get into the site so maybe this new code will work the next time I try. If not, I may need a little trouble-shooting tomorrow. This is exciting because it is new, but is confusing at times and I'm sure I will get much better as the course progresses. I hope to become quite computer literate!