Comments for Kids in November

Comment 3.1

In my first assigned C4K for the month of November a young girl named Seanan had written a reflection of the month of October on her experiences in the classroom.  She shared several stories about her projects and assignments given in class, as well as some of the experiments that the class had partook in during the month.  Seanan told a story about Monster Bash, which is a festival during the Halloween week that many of the students look forward to all year.  At the Bash they had a chocolate fountain, games, and had a costume parade that students were judged in (that was Seanan's favorite part of the Monster Bash).  During English class Seanan was assigned to write a scary story that related to Halloween.  Lastly, she shared that a project they completed during October was of historical theme.  Seanan chose to complete a project about the thirteen colonies.  My comments on Seanan's blog post were brief.  I told her how much I enjoyed reading her blog, and the fact that she was using her blog to educate others all over the world is very important.  I also said that I was jealous of her class' ability to use a blog in the first place and to keep listening to Mr. Spicer; from a teacher like him she can learn a great deal.

“One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in”.

                 Wayne Gretzky

Comment 3.2

The last comment for the month came from Kayla Waite.  Kayla is a tenth grade student who is a part of Jamie Lynn Martin's English class at Baldwin County High School.  Ms. Martin is somewhat of a local celebrity her in EDM310.  Kayla's post was a reflection on a reading she was assigned, and created a post about a feeling that could be related with to a character in the assigned work.  Alienation was the topic of her post.  Throughout the post Kayla used some of her own life experiences to draw a picture of the struggle the protagonist was enduring.  I left Kayla comments on her blog post pertaining to the feeling of alienation.  She seemed innately in-touch with the feelings that many adolescent teens endure throughout their high school career.  I gave her substantive and reliable advice that said to keep your head up and keep looking forward to college.  

 These are my last C4K comments from EDM 310. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading student blogs from all over the world. I have seen how much potential students do have and how creative students can be. I never thought that students would be able to blog as well as they do, or would be able to create videos that they were able to post online. I will incorporate blogging in my classroom when I begin teaching, because it does seem like the students enjoy being able to blog and receive feedback from visitors around the globe. I have learned that blogging will help my students become lifelong learners and networked students, both of which will help them become successful adults in the future. Thank you to Dr. Strange for assigning the students of EDM 310 C4K each week, and thank you to all the teachers who have encouraged their students to post blogs. To all the student bloggers that I have read, great work and keep blogging!