Bon Jour Bloggers!

I will not be able to be in class with you today.  However, I will be in school so I may be popping in or you may see me in the halls.  Our Broadcasting & Media Club will be filming a movie, “A Day in the Life of a BIS Student.” This movie will be shared with the current 5^th graders.  They will be coming to this building next year.  If you see us filming in the school please try to act naturally.  We may stop some of you and ask you to do a “cameo” appearance. 

In my absence today, Mr. Anthony will be in charge.  I am confident you will work well for him and impress him with your blogging skills.  He will begin class today by handing out your “BLOG DESIGN RUBRIC.”   You will take a couple of minutes to review this.  Then you will be putting it in your binder/folder for future reference.  You will eventually receive a score or content grade for the design of your blog.  You will want to take some time over the next couple of weeks to prepare your blog for this assessment. 

Moving on to the class at hand; you will be working on your second blog post today.  Although you have shown me you have an understanding of the BPS Blogging and Commenting Guidelines; I would still like to see your blog posts before they have been uploaded.  You will need to take out your guidelines and have them readily available to review.  You may create your post about anything your little heart desires.  Please remember this is a school account and the content must be appropriate for school.  Think about all of the things which have been mentioned in the presentations earlier this week.  It is a good idea to have links and possibly images in your posts.  Your title should be “eye catching”, like a newspaper headline.  We will be adding labels/tags before uploading your post next week.  So you will want to think of some effective ones to use.  If you take a look at my previous post, “Ready, Set, Blog!” you will see some links which may be helpful to you for this assignment.  Take the time to check them out.  In addition, you have the Internet at your fingertips to do some research if necessary.  Please remember to cite all sources and images in your blog.  You may not have anything or anyone to cite.  This sometimes happens as well.

Step One:   Pick your topic.  What will you blog about today?  There is such a wide range.  If you are having a brain freeze and cannot think of anything to blog about  well then check out this blog post, “Student Blogging Challenges-A List of Ideas.”   I am sure one of these ideas will inspire you! 

Step Two:  Think of a catchy title for your post.  If one doesn’t come to mind right away skip this step and move on to the next.

Step Three:  Open you Google accounts using the shortcut on the desktop and create a new doc.  Title this doc with an appropriate title (blog post #2 will work).  Then begin writing.  Get all of your thoughts down on this doc and then worry about editing.

Step Four:  Edit your new blog post.  If you were not able to come up with a title earlier in the process, then try now.  Take a look at your guidelines and be sure you have followed them.  Make any corrections or necessary adjustments.  **Remember to download an image to your pdrive and then upload it to this doc.  You may need to upload the image again next week when you publish this post..**

Step Five:  You will now need to “share” this document with me.  You will do this by dragging it in to your ILT folder.  Please make sure your name and ILT#  are on the top of this doc before sharing it.

Step Six:  If you have finished your post before the end of class start going over the Blog Design Rubric. You may start making any changes or adjustments to improve your blog.  

I cannot wait to check out your latest posts.  If you were not able to share your presentation last class you will be doing so next week so keep on practicing!!  Have a great class!!

Mrs. White J