Well, this blogging year is almost over, and as it ends, I will cry. Although, I have very, very good memories while blogging, I will miss it very much. I have compiled these reflections on blogging, so hopefully,..........I'll still remember how to blog over the summer. Wow, I remember the Thursday when Mrs. Poole, our assistant principal, came up to me and asked me if I wanted to join the weblog group again this year. I happily agreed. Well, I even remember when I first joined the group last year, but I guess I'll leave that and return back to my thoughts. For the first couple of weeks, we blogged on Mrs. Davis's blog, while she created ours. It was hectic for the first couple of weeks, because everybody except Jenny, Derrick, and I were new with blogging. I felt proud to know about blogging. The day we got our blogs, we spent all day marveling over them. OK, maybe not ALL day, but for most of it. After our first post everything went smoothly, except trying to teach the new people to copy and paste your writing somewhere else before posting. Our group has been through some tough times. First Keith left our group, then there was Juana. Yoceline moved, but we have been trying to still blog with her. Also, Murphy has been let loose in our lab countless times, but we have struggled to survive. Our losses have been sad, but we have gained Amber, Angelica, and Noe. Although struggling, our group has gained more friends, more opportunities, and we were given an experence we will never forget. My feelings on weblogging has changed throughout these 2 years. In 4th grade, I used to think that it was just another place to get more homework. Now, I'm sad if I don't get homework! I enjoy writing and in the future, I hope to help with a high school newspaper, or become a author, or even a journalist! I hope blogging will be a main part of my future! Writing + Blogging = My life. Emily
"Yippee! Monday is a teacher workday!" Want to know what Im so happy about? OK, besides that the day was a "no-school" day. Well, every Monday, during the summer or holidays, My mom, sister, and I go and visit my aunts house. I know what you are thinking. "Just another visit to my boring aunts house." Well, my aunt is SO cool! She loves kids & my cousins Kim, Bear, and Cub are so much fun to play with! A usual day at my aunts usually starts off by having a pot-luck lunch at around 11:00 am. The lunch usually consists of whatever everybody brings. Most of the time, there are 2-3 pizzas, fish, cucumber and chicken. After the meal the kids usually have an ice cream! After lunch, numerous activities can occur. During the summer, Bear, Cub, Sarah, Me, and sometimes Kim go swimming in my aunts huge 10-foot deep pool! Usually we stay in for about 5 hours, sometimes longer! After swimming, we usually dry off by jumping on her trampoline or going down into her basement. In the winter and fall, we play with tons of outfits and usually we make plays & film them. My aunt bought Bear, Cub, Sarah, and I a video recorder called "Digital Blue." It records many things which you can then hook up on a computer and add cool things to them. You can add special effects, text, and put together scenes. One of the movies we made was called "The Quest for The Triforce." For all of the Zelda fans out there, you know. For those who arent, the Triforce is a magical artifact that grants you one wish when all 3 pieces are connected. It was fun to make and fun to watch! What we also do is on a Fall day, almost all of my cousins (and some brave uncles) take winter sleds and plastic kiddy pools, put 2-3 people in a sled and slide down a huge forest-like hill. It is incredibly fun! Although there is a risk of flipping over, the thrill of sliding down a steep leafy hill just overpowers you. When we aren't doing that, all of the cousins and some adults go hiking in the woods. If you go to the south of the house and you go into the woods, you see a small creek. If you follow that, after a while you see a huge hollow tree. When the family all went down there, 7 people fit into there. Seven people! Inside, you can look up and see a tunnel. It is a completely hollow tree. It is amazing! If you go west of the house, you run into the cousin-made Town Nowhere. When you look throughout he town, there will be many interesting things you will see. In one corner, there is a shop where there is a moss-covered shoe, an old baseball, a rotting tire, and a vine door. In another corner, you will see a small wooden gate and many small huts. Smack dab in the middle, you will find a stick. A white stick. The stick we dubbed "The Great White Stick". It was the stick that started it all. Well, at least started the town. Bear & Cub were looking in the newly, poorly uninspired town when they found a white stick and a metal hook-thingie. So today, the white stick is the town's symbol. If you go a little further into the woods, you meet a new place called Camp Nowhere. In the center of Camp Nowhere, there is a tire (campfire) with logs around it (seats). If you follow a small path, you will see a small ditch. This ditch is really cool. In it you will see small treasures, like bottles, cans, and other small things. One time I found a Pepsi glass bottle, and it looked really old. Thus, we named this ditch "Treasure Ditch". At my Aunt's house, there are many fun things to do. Swimming, filming, and just having fun. I'm glad I'm with my family altogether. Well, Signora! Got to go put my sun screen on!
March 18, 2004 in Imported, Thinking | Permalink | Comments (4)
In the High Schoolers' blogs, there were many reviews that contained interesting information. All of the reviews contained many pieces of information I have not thought about and others I have heard before and use all the time. These are very useful to use in writing so that your posts almost sound like books!
Devin's comment on Matt's site was one of my favorite though. Enticing the reader, grabbing the reader's attention, and using great leads. Some of my favorite Writing tactics.
Mallory's comment on Dana's site is interesting also. Mallory said that Dana was very passionate about the subject she was writing about. My teacher, Mrs.Mateling, always says that you have to be passionate about learning until you truly learn. I really agree with Mrs.Mateling, you really do!
Through their posts, I have learned many important lessons. There was one that really stood out though; you can never be absolutely perfect at something. You can always improve.
March 11, 2004 in Imported, Thinking | Permalink | Comments (5)
Once I heard this assignment, my response was on the double! I absolutely LOVE WEBLOGS!!! The webloging experience for everyone is so great for education subjects, or of course to share your feelings. Ms. Davis' group allows me to really express my feelings about the subjects on the news and my side of the story. You might think that you can just write it down on paper and have the same effect. If you have a weblog though, you can write AND get a response from other viewers.
What do we do in weblogs? In the weblog group, we start off the day by meeting together and taking up our homework. Our homework is usually writing a story off a report from a news site and making a really thought-provoking question at the end. Next we talk about what our day plan is, and go off to the computer lab to go weblogging!!! YAY!!!
We usually start of by typing our homework, and then responding to our responses of our posts. Many people out in the world just can not even imagine what it feels like to get an uplifting response to our stories!!! After our cheers from our responses, we find a new report that we enjoy reading about on some interesting news sites for our homework.
After all of this, at 10:30 (sometimes longer), our time is up and we pack up our stuff, and go back to our classrooms. I really wish our day was longer, so our class can keep on learning!
Remember Ms. Davis, I am all ears!!!
Seen again on the web, It's SUPERTHINKER!!!!
Yes, the mysterious SuperThinker strikes again on the world wide web!!! Secretly posting on random weblogs, giving good advice to young and old alike. Please reply to me if you see her strike again. Wanted alive.
Hey, SuperThinker, it's ok, I'm just trying to see if anyone was believing me for a second there, and was about to post, saying they've heard from you. The whole class has been wondering who you are. So far, your clues have been:
Hopefully, I will soon find out who this super thinking SuperThinker is, but at the same time, I want to not know because it's fun to guess who SuperThinker is!
December 18, 2003 in Imported, Thinking | Permalink | Comments (3)
Mrs. Davis read to us a post that she wrote on her weblog, it was long but inspirational. She wrote about how when she reads a post, she loves to recearch that topic to find more info about the topic. Mrs.Davis hopes to find even more edublogs written by kids. In the post, she wrote somthing that Mr. Richardson said about blogging:
I think that what Mr. Richardson wrote was fantastic!