Shall We Blog?

Welcome to our online classroom!

Blogs are an interactive way to share our writing, and we're excited for you to create your own. Ms. Reaves and I are providing written instructions on a handout, but we think you'll really just learn as you go. What we’ve set up here is a central class blog where we will post assignments and writing by both Ms. Reaves and myself.

When you create your blogs, each of them will be added to a "blog roll" on the right hand side--this page is where you can hop on and see what everyone else is up to, and we'll be looking for you to make supportive and appropriate comments on your classmates' blogs, like you did in our poetry "verse" gallery.

Some things to know/keep in mind:

A post is a new entry you create from scratch with your own thoughts and ideas. A comment is an idea or thought you attach to someone else's post.

Since this blog is part of our class, we aren't using our blogs for socializing like Facebook or texting. We hope you're kind and friendly to one another, but resist posting casual messages or silly small talk or really anything not related to our work together as a class.

When you've created your own blog today, leave the name and url as a comment here. Ms. Reaves and I will link all of them to this page and this will be our home base. We do hope you enjoy this process...we’re here every step of the way so don't hesitate to ask either of us if you have questions or want some guidance.