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— Mr. Zac Leonard  (@MrLeonard8) January 20, 2016

Go boldly and scatter seeds of kindness... Reflect curiosity and wonder... Live to make the world less difficult for each other. ~ George Eliot

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A Project: A Tweet Away

Summer 2020 Blog Fest Laura , our mentor in our journey about networked blogging and the benefits of blogging, suggests we start a project, for which she shares two of hers: Twitter Highlights : blog posts with interesting, annotated Twitter highlights, tagged with "Twitter Highlights" -- check the bottom of a post to see the tag Dabbles: Stories in 100 Words [or less] : a collection of such stories My Project: Tweet Curation for Research I have a project already set up. It's called: So. Consider. I cannot believe I started it in 2012. But blogs have many purposes, and I think blogs are perfect places to gather and curate. I wanted a place to share bits of interesting blog posts or tweets-- and it became [along with Diigo ], a place to post tweets for things that: are interesting could be part of a current research project seem important for the times may be words of wisdom are usually about education, but now could be covid or democracy or socia

Middle School Blogging Strategies

As I've been reading the process of connecting blogs and using labels/tags and categories in Laura Gibb 's SummerBlogFest2020 , I finally realized I did begin such a process with my students the year we started with Blogger blogs. Laura's Process Laura's comment reminded me of our process when she pointed me to her " Biography Assignment ." Scroll down to the blue box to see how her students created their response in their blogs-- here's a screenshot : Middle School Process In our Slice of Life writing, where students loved writing about themselves every Tuesday, I wrote about the process and project here: Slice of Life Writing , complete with links to examples and drafts. Briefly, we followed this process-- every Tuesday, and every day in March: Draft : A Quick Write, then a Slow Write/Revision in GDocs Review Strategies : Add the writing strategies used with examples from your work Post with title SOL+your topic/title; label:

Still Learning

Still Learning This summer I'm measuring my blogging knowledge, adding in some new ingredients -- such as creating a network of bloggers using InoReader . My mentor teacher is Laura Gibbs and our learning course is online: Summer2020 Blogging Fest . I'm restarting this blog for this purpose, and hopefully for a continued idea about a community of bloggers. More on that later. I'm excited to learn more about blogger-- I've had experience with many blogging platforms: Wordpress, Blogger, Edublogs, Kidblogs, Tumblr, Posterous [expired]. However, I'm really still a beginner with making the platform be what I want, and that is not always an easy thing-- many platforms dictate the format, but Blogger offers some choices. There will be some thorns in the process of planting ideas, but step by step, I'll be able to mix new ideas with old and develop a plan for a project. Today I tried a few themes -- the thing about Blogger and Wordpress, is that ther

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