Best(?) of the Fischbowl 2007 (May)

I decided to read the blog for the month of May. David Pogue writes about Customer Service in more than one way. A video is shown at the beginning of the blog which shows a customer calling the customer service for help on their computer which in the end he was hung up on. David talks shortly about customer service as in technical support then gets into customer service in education.

David brings up ideas that students are there to meet teacher's requirements. Also, that teachers are there to meet administrator needs. When really the service should be coming from the person higher on the pole. Teachers need to serve students and be there to give help when they need it. Administrators should be there for the teachers and listen to their problems or complaints with and help towards fixing them.

Pictures With Title and ALT Modifier

One of my favorite pictures is a picture of water.

Technology and Teachers

I can understand both sides of the argument. The problem I would see is that there are so many teachers already out there who would not be happy having to go back and learn about technology and the computer. I personally think it would be great if every teacher could be technologically literate but in my opinion that will not be possible until I, being 21 now, am about 40 or 50. (People are very stubborn and lazy is basically what I am getting at.)
Another area in the blog that I noticed to be interesting is how he compared teachers not knowing technology now to not being able to read thirty years ago. I think that statement was a little extreme. I know that there are many teachers now who are not technological in the least, whom I have learned more from than people who know the computer backwards and forwards. Both arguments are understandable. Children want to learn up-to-date things and we want to make sure teachers are keeping up with them. Yet, there is still a way to teach without involving the computer that will satisfy the mind.

International Class Blog 2

The second International Class Blog I found was a group of primary school children. They were participating in a blog that was called "Arty Reflections." The site was designed to promote critical thought and creative thought in visual arts. They post their artwork on the site but the main reason for the site is to use their "six thinking hats." These six hats help them put more thought into creating and shows them how to look at art more intuitively. This picture was used on the "6 Thinking Hats" page as the Heading. The website was http://mshearman.edublogs.org/

International Class Blog 1

This blog was made for young writers at a Public School in Australia. This Mullumbimby Public School wanted to make a site where they could showcase one student a month who did exceptionally well with a piece of writing. They represent different levels of students and different genres of writings. They encourage emails and comments on all the student writing. This picture was one of their special guest storyteller's who visited the school. The picture was shown in one of the older posts. The website was http://mullumwriters.blogspot.com/

Class Blogs 2

The second class blog I found was made for a computer class. The teacher's name is Ms. Mercer and she teaches at Oak Ridge Elementary. Her class blog was made for her fourth grade class. The blog gives information about assignments. It also gives links and explanations of activities with resources that help in the class. This blog had the entries and the assignments posted. The teacher mentioned on one of the pages that one reason they made this blog was to promote the internet for school use.
This picture was used for one of the class assignments.
It was to make a fairy tale up that would go along with the picture.
The website was http://oakridgefourthgrade.edublogs.org/

Class Blogs

The first blog I found was called "The Electric Pencil." It was a teacher named Mr. H who taught sixth grade at Norris Elementary School. The site was for the students to share their work. The teacher provided examples of all the different assignments he gave the class on the site. The students who used this site were in a writing class. This gave them a place to share their writing with everyone.
The website was http://epencil.edublogs.org/