How to Add an Image to Your Post
Dear Bloggers, If you’ve ever wanted to add a picture to your blog but wondered how to do this properly, here is a great video that teaches you how to do this. If you take your own photo, you don’t...
View ArticleEvaluating Internet Information
The internet is such a vast resource that it is easy to understand how challening it can be to navigate through it! This is especially true if you don’t know what you’re looking at! Today, we learned...
View ArticleHow to leave a comment on our blog!
We LOVE visitors to our blog! We hope that you are a frequent visitor and leave us your thoughts about the things we are learning in our classroom. Parents, students, teachers and other guests from...
View ArticleBeing Safe and Responsible Online…Always!
When about to cross the street, our parents taught us to look both ways. When learning how to ride a bike, we were told to wear a helmet to protect our heads….so how do you be safe online? Our...
View ArticleAdding Music to PowerPoint–using Creative Commons
Here is a great website that gives you a lot of choice for choosing music for your Social Issues book trailers. They are created by global artists that have given you permission to use their music, as...
View ArticleStaying Safe Online
In class and in recent V.I.P. discussions, we’ve been learning about what it means to keep ourselves safe online and how we can protect ourselves from the sometimes not-so-nice people that exist in our...
View ArticleNavigating the Blogosphere
It’s been 3 weeks since school began and it was time to see how well we knew our way around our class blog. Ten questions were asked that got the students clicking and navigating their way through our...
View ArticleLearning About Commenting
Commenting on the blog is what helps to keep the blog alive. We’ve been learning what makes a great comment and have been using Mrs. Yollis’ classmates to help us learn various ways to make a comment...
View ArticleHow to Leave a Comment
Commenting is the part of blogging that is one of the most exciting. Commenting allows students to connect with others near and far and promotes improving literacy skills with an authentic audience,...
View ArticleY.A.P.P.Y.
One of the most important things to teach students about being online is how to stay safe. The internet is a gateway to the world; if we have certain rules for our children in the physical world to...
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