Monday, November 9, 2009

First draft of my story

OK, everyone, here is my first line.  Feel free to suggest possible edits.

Yesterday, while at Jang Mountain, in Busan, I saw two girls who were playing in the streamI saw that a flood was coming so I ran for the girls like a lightning to push them out of the way but the brave act cost me being taken by the foaming rushing water!

Monday, November 9th

Hi, MS students,

We're slowly getting our blogs up and going.  Just a reminder about what we're trying to do.  Please make sure that, by tomorrow, you've added the following to your blog:

  1. two news items, summarized by a precis, along with at least one photo per news story. (Remember that the stories could be in the world of sports, the arts, politics, something big that's happened internationally or nationally).
  2. A widget
  3. All classroom followers
  4. Our blog list of fellow students
Today, we're going to work on a chain story.  You may have done something like this before in your English class somewhere during your elementary or middle school education.  You will write one descriptive line of text.  It must contain a noun, a verb, at least one adjective, at least one adverb.  After you write your line, you will visit your classmates' blogs and add a line of text to theirs.  In the end each of you should have a story of 10 sentences.  You will then end of the story with a sentence.  So your participation for your own story will be 2 sentences.

Each story must have a beginning, a middle and an end.  Each story must have a setting.  Please remember: setting tells us, the reader, about where and when the story is taking place.

Once the stories are done, you are going to practice recording your story (with a partner, if you wish) using Audacity.  We'll then add some appropriate music to it, any effects that might be good, and then we'll publish the podcast to your blog.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Sites for pictures

Hi, MS students,

We're continuing to add a few items to our blogs:

a gadget

some pics from the following sites (choose one or two):

http://www.picapp.com/

www.flickr.com/creativecommons

http://openphoto.net/

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Short assignment about the news: this is for the yearbook

This assignment is for our yearbook:

Students will post two (2) images from the world wide web.  They will also include links to the news source.  The images are to be about news items in the world at the moment.  Try to think of items that are not too restricted to a particular country that few people would know.

Think of the following categories:

Wars going on
Music or movies that are popular
Sports
Fashion

Monday, November 2, 2009

Assignment with our blog

Dear Students,

For your first assignment, I want you to find a photo on the internet at a news site (e.g., cnn.com, bbc.com, cbc.com, various newspapers)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Welcome!

Hi, my middle school BFS students,

Here is where we are going to explore blogging and podcasting and other cool things as we do some work on, among other things, our 09-'10 yearbook.

Followers