Tool #1

Hello! After several hours and many questions, my blog is now set up!!!! This first tool required me to set up a blog and an avatar. The latter of these I did not even know existed till an hour ago.

Now that I know how to make and use this tool I feel confident in being able to use it with my students. I think this would be a great activity to use in our computer lab time. The students could use their blogs to post reviews of books they have recently read. This would allow the students a new outlet to writing and a way for them to hear about books they might now have heard about prior to reading their friends blog.

The creating of an avatar would be an insight into the students personalities at the beginning of the school year. Seeing what details and changes they made to the basic structure of the characters would let me see who is conservative or outgoing.