Thursday, April 17, 2008

Blogs Are Different!!


Blogs Are Typically Read From the Bottom Up!! Start With Older Posts Link And Work Your Way Up!!

A Few Words On Blogs


Blogs can be very useful to you and have a number of elements you should be familiar with. Here are a few:

-Blogs have dated material, therefore you and your children are able to go back through postings in the blog that are archived chronologically and find previously posted information.





-Blogs are searchable. You can search for key ideas in a blog. Each blog makes it possible to assign a category to help find general information easily. For example, if you click on newsletter, it will bring up all posts commonly tagged with that word.

-Blogs contain pages. Pages are accessible to you through user created links. This is a good place to maintain newsletters and daily schedules. As a result, you have access to them at any time!

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Where the web will be taking us in education in the future

Take a listen to this podcast-a technology your children will be sure to be utilizing in their education.



What Have You Learned?


Resources for Parents


There are a variety of resources available to you in your child's school district. Below are some examples of individuals commonly found in most districts:

-teachers

-teacher aides

-principal

-specials teachers(art, music, gym etc.)

-parent coordinator

-nurse

-social worker

-psychologist

All of these individuals are available to you and are concerned about your child's success!