Rose+Bates

Hi everyone!! Friday, September 23, 2011 4:50 pm

I have gone through and updated all of the links, so if you don't see your name send me an email and I will fix it! I have read all of your posts so far and I am extremely happy to see that you truly are excited to be using this as a tool to help your learning. I also would like to point out how interesting it is that many of you wrote that you love the fact that this is anonymous...meaning, keep it that way!! This is going to be a great experiences for all of us; some of you have already started discussions back and forth--Congratulations, you are blogging.

Have a wonderful weekend -- see you in cyber space!!!

Rose Bates

Here is an example of a page that I created from a link connected to the Free Writing Page so that everyone can comment on my writing. Make sure that when you comment on others' writing, you go to the discussion tab at the top. We do not want to risk accidentally deleting someone's hard work!!

Leave me a message! :-)

What things are you most excited about with this blog? How do you think this blog will help you with your reading and writing skills? Make sure you add some additional media (pictures, video links, or websites) that help explain your ideas about this project.

This year, I am most excited about using technology in class to help my students learn important skills in new, interesting, and exciting ways. I think that by using this blog, my reading will improve, simply because I need to be reading so much to keep up with everything that all of my wonderful students will be posting. As for my writing, I will be trying to occasionally post some of my own writing so that everyone can read it. I have to admit, I have not written anything creatively in many years, so I am a little rusty, but I will do my best! In college, at Rutgers University, we did not do a lot of creative writing; my writing was mostly analytical or researched based.

To all of my students: Good luck with the rest of the school year. I predict that we will create and develop amazing things through our online interactions, as well as in the classroom!!