Shelfari Update 9/27/11

Today in tech class you will work on your shelf in Shelfari again.  You need to add all the 7th and 8th grade students as your friends so you can see what they are reading and comment on the books on their shelf.  I have invited all of you to join the Barnard School 7/8 Language Arts group.  Accept my invitation today and you will then be able to add those people to your list of friends.  If you go to the profile tab you will find a invite friends button--that is another way to invite friends. Right now please keep your friends to people at Barnard School and family members.

After you have worked on your friends list, be sure that you are up to date on your shelf.  You should have:
     1.  One book on your "Reading Now" shelf
     2.  A brief summary which includes the genre of the book you are reading
     3.  Two books on your "I plan to read shelf"
If you finish all this in less than five minutes, add books to your books "I've read" shelf or "I plan to read shelf."

Design your own blog

     Your blogs are ready to go!  Be sure to thank Miss Gagne and Ms. Casassa for their hard work and effort to get them all set up after last week's tech class.  Visit the Student Blog page and click on your name to see your blog.  Today in tech class we are going to choose a blog design, write our first post and add your wordle collage to your page.  If you stay focused you can get all of that done! 

     I will help you get started with your blog design in class.  You can refer to these directions (Blog Basics) at anytime if you need help.

     Don't forget to write your first post that explains why you chose your template and design.   You can read mine to see why I chose my blog template. I can't wait to see what your blogs look like and watch them grow throughout the year.

Shelfari-Week #2

This is the second week of Shelfari.  You have a couple jobs today.  Click on the Shelfari instruction to see what you need to do.  Have fun!

We're starting our blogs!

     Today you are going to create your own blog!  How exciting.  The purpose of this blog is to represent who you are right now--as a student primarily, but also as a person.  You will be posting your work on this blog, writing your thoughts and responses to what we are studying in class, and responding to each other.  The first step, however, is to create your blog.  We'll walk through it together in class, but I've posted the instructions here as well.  Click here for a copy of the "Creating your Blog" Instructions.