I am on chapter 8...I am probably ahead of you guys now. :(

Jessica,

Our students are a little behind your students.  However, we are interesting in blogging and/or creating a wiki with your students.  Please contact me at lonihowell@epals.com   Thank-you, Laura

Is anyone already reading Animal Farm? We are on chapter 4.

Lisa,

We will not be able to participate.  :-(   The other members of my cluster team who are not participating in the blog are starting "Animal Farm" the last week in Feb.  We should conclude around the end of March.  Thank you, Karen, Shannon, & Laura

I should be able to start blogging on April 2nd.

How many of you are in on this then?

Lisa

Lisa,

We, teachers and computer resource specialist, have five classes of grade 9 students who will read "Animal Farm" starting in March too.  We are very interested in blogging with your students.  Please contact us at lonihowell@epals.com.  Thank you, Karen, Shannon, and Laura

Hello all,

I agree about the notification - this is one of those things that just falls off the plate unnoticed from time to time!  On the plus side, we're starting early enough, that it will be ok!

Thanks for the heads up on the gadgets.

If no one else minds, I say we go with blogger since we're familiar with it.  Thanks for the link, by they way!  Very cool work.

In January, I can post when we'd be able to start blogging.

Lisa

I have about 75 kids blog (or at least I assign it! ha!). We use blogger and wordpress. Blogger is so easy, but if you have the kids add on gadgets, you should know that not all are school appropriate. They're not pornographic, but certainly push the edge. Do not let them take the gadget to allow youtube feeds into their blog. The folks at youtube filter in disgusting videos at night. Those two things aside, blogger is a great way to go. Edublogs is extremely popular and designed for students.

Blogger, Wordpress, Edublogs - any of those are great!

- Jessica

ps. Sorry for the late reply. I wish ePals would email me when someone writes back. If you don't get a timely response, my email is jbrogley@epals.com

Here are our blogs!

http://mrsbrogley.com/blog/student-blogs

We don't have skype, sadly, but I think this may be rather impressive never the less.

Any favorite blogging websites that either of you know about?  I've used blogger before with relative succes, though I've never tried it with such a LARGE group!

Lisa

I think it's possible that we can join in on that too. We're reading Animal Farm right around that time. I'll be having about 75 students read it. Wow - this could be quite the group!

We're in Wisconsin.

Do any of you skype? We could also try Skyping.

-Jessica Brogley

Hi Lisa,

I have a class of 30 honors freshmen in Southern California, USA, who will be reading "Animal Farm" in the spring, also.  I can arrange for them to read it in March when you begin.  They will be very excited to blog with your students about the book.  You can get to know us better by viewing our web site.  Your students are welcome to leave us messages if they'd like.

I hope to hear from you.

Judy P.

I have a class of 27 advanced sophomores in the middle of Kansas who will read "Animal Farm" starting on March 23rd and running into April. We plan to blog with one another, but we would be extremely excited to also blog with another group of students. The fantastic thing about blogging is that it doesn't matter if you have 8 or 80 students.

Regards,

Lisa