Welcome!

We hope you enjoy this blog! Share it with everyone! It's designed to introduce some of our favorite things about classroom blogging. The blog posts go in order, which is kind of upside down for a blog. We just changed the dates on the posts to make this happen. It's a good way to keep a welcome message at the top of your blog. On the left, you will notice pages to click on. Make sure to look at The Goal page before you go any further.

Some quick background on myself and my teaching partner: we teach fifth grade in Littleton, Colorado, where we have students speaking multiple languages, reading texts at 1st grade through high school levels, and using wireless netbooks throughout the day across the curriculum.

Our goal for this presentation is to share with you our main purposes for blogging, some specific practices for classroom blogging, and all sorts of fun and engaging material for you to consider adding to your own classrooms blogs, websites, etc. We'll do our best to share through the lenses of critical thinking, differentiation, audience & purpose, and collaboration.

Last year's regular classroom blog is located here. We've started working on a new one for 2011-2012. You can find it here. At the moment, it's definitely under construction.

We realize that we all learn differently - please work, listen, participate, relax, and do what you need to do in order to be the best learner you can be! Please, please, please stop us to ask questions, discuss, argue, and enjoy the time we have together!

Click all over and enjoy! But first, take a moment to play with the embedded "Lino it" below and introduce yourself. If the screen seems too small, use this link for the full size cork board.

Thanks,
Chris and Nicolette