8C @ W Erskine Johnston PS

Social Activism or Gossip?

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Twitter is a social networking tool used by millions of folks all over the world.  People use twitter for a variety of reasons – keeping in touch with friends, following celebrities, finding information and connecting with people across the globe.  Something very interesting about twitter is that it has the ability to mobilize people behind [...]

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Diving into our Blogs

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments

This week we will devote some computer lab time to working on our blogs.  We will make sure that we have some basic info on our “about” pages and we will learn how to embed our shared google calendar on our individual blogs. 
Students will be asked to blog a response to one of the following blog [...]

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Bitstrips Class Picture

October 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Recently, students in 8C have been working with bitstripsforschools to create a reading response comic strip.  We began by creating our own avatars, which we can change at any time.  Once all students had created avatars, we were able to see the following class picture:
Yes, indeed, we are a motley crew, aren’t we?  Stay tuned for [...]

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