(Caren Litherland)

I think it will be beneficial if I set out some guidelines for the students to keep in mind as they write and post to their blogs. I am open to suggestions or clarifications. Here they are.

• No insults or attacks on other people
• Must use proper grammar and punctuation
• No making fun of anyone
• No threats
• Do not pretend to be insane
• No joking about hurting people
• No foul language
• No posting of copyright material (text, pictures, video, etc.) without permission from the copyright owner
• If you use pictures or other objects that are in the public domain or are used under a Creative Commons (CC) license, you must give credit to the owner of the material, and provide a link back to the original (like I did when using the CC-licensed photo from Flickr in this post)

You can post as often as you want. Some good topics for blog posts include:

• A subject you know a lot about
• Hobbies
• World events
• Sports
• Local news
• What’s going on in your neighborhood
• Pets
• Books you are reading
• Product reviews (only if you are very familiar with a particular product)
• TV shows
• Movies you have seen
• Games
• How-to do something

Those are just a few ideas.

(Kristina Barnett)

I added a blog roll of all the blogs being set up and maintained by the 2nd quarter reading students. I invite you to check them out and leave some comments for the intrepid bloggers. We are working on them everyday and each day they improve significantly.

The main purpose of this blogging project is to publish an interview with someone from the community. More on that later. For now check out these blogs (on the right side bar). They are just getting started, but some of these kids clearly have important things on their minds. Many are very interesting writers.