Today all of the class were given their gmail accounts by Mr Power. The students now have their own gmail email address and have been instructed on how to merge their other e mail accounts into this one if they want to. The class were told the importance of being a responsible blogger and that what they put out there on the web can be seen at anytime by anytime. They will soon be given a piece of paper to sign up for responsible use of the internet as well as the diary form they have already signed.

Tasks to complete this week include.

You all need to have made up at least three categories on your blogroll. Essential categories are Teachers, Students and Useful Links.

Within these categories I want you to have added every student in your class, all of the 5th grade teachers including Mr Power and any specialists you know have blogs (eg Li Laoshi). You can find most of these links in my blogroll.

You are to change your password for all of your accounts, preferably to the same or similar one that you will remember.

For today’s homework you are to do a follow up activity for your Ideal School writing task. Remember to make your writing as detailed as possible in line with what we have been discussing in our ‘writers workshop’ lessons. Write at least two-three paragraphs discussing what we did in class and the end result of what your poster looked like. Which part of a school did you choose to focus on? Were you happy with the end result? Now that you have done the writing, add a picture from a file of your own or google images, like we did in class today.

Write another post about what you did over the long weekend. If you have any photos at home that you could upload of yourself, practice uploading them by using the upload button below your writing section on the back end of your blog.