2/26/2016 February 26, 2016
Blog posts on Jack and the Beanstalk are now live. Most of the posts will look the same in content because of the skills we were practicing in this activity. We have been working on the "magic keys" or keyboard shortcuts, and students practiced those by first cutting and pasting the story events into the correct sequence, and then copying and pasting the sentences into their blog posts. Once in the post we used select all or selecting a passage of text to do some formatting such as italics, font color, bold text, etc.
Microsoft drawing tools were used to create the "magic beans" and the beans were duplicated (Ctrl+d) and formatted. Students then snipped the beans and saved the image as a PNG file.This image was then inserted into the post.
About now is when students begin to discover commenting on posts and once they began submitting silly comments I know that it is time to learn about what makes a good comment. They discovered 5 important tips in commenting by watching a video created by some third graders in 2010 in California.
Then they drew classmates names randomly to practice using these 5 tips for good comments after I modeled what it would be like to comment on a post from one of our other classes. If they would like to do commenting from home they are welcome to do so, but please encourage them to make quality comments based on the tips learned in class. (All comments will come to me for approval before going live.) Parents can also model quality commenting by leaving comments for third graders as well. Thank you in advance for encouraging this digital communication.
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