STUDENTS CAN NOW ATTACH BLOGS TO NEW MEDIA WEBSITE

I've reached another milestone in the project management process for New Media middle and high school.

Now students can log in (and 90% of our students already have user names and passwords on the new media site) and they can update their profiles, including their

blog addreess on google
an alternate blog address (blog #2)
a personal web address

and each one of these will become visible on their "account" when they log in.

What's the point of this process?

Well, the overall point is that this will be the structure through which our students will be building their online portfolios and project development logs throughout the year. This process is described in my "proposal" listed a few posts earlier (scroll down).

We will also be using this tool to log school and class wide assignments related to writing and research development. We have discussed this in project development last week and this week, and I have met individually with all the English teachers in the building, and they are all in agreement with it and are willing to support it.

It's really more about me supporting them. I have taken things the English departments are already working on (like Highly Effective Writing book) and woven them into this plan.

WHO WILL IMPLEMENT THIS?

Pascal, LaToya, and MySelf will be getting all the students up to speed in terms of making sure they have Blog accounts set up and having them hook them up to the New Media website. I should re-iterate that only the blogs that we as administrators decide to "make public" will be shown on the external website.

After the blogs are set up, since blogs are used for tracking progress on projects, All Tech team personell will be accountable to make sure that whatever progress they make with their students should be uploaded to the student blogs.

Every advisor will be able to log into the website and see a list of all of their students in their class and they will be able to go in and make "comments" on their students' blog pages. These blogs will be used to grade the projects.

Advisors can also assign work to go onto the blogs.