Thursday, February 17, 2011

Chemistry Project and Glogster Trouble

I am looking to do an "Adopt an Element" project using my santorosciencerocks.pbworks.com site. I would like students to each have their own page to research elements and write down their responses. I'm not sure yet, if multiple students can edit and save work at a time. It would be a very cool tool to use in my chemistry unit if it works correctly.
As far as the Glog projects, the saving problem continues. I'm not sure why only certain students are able to save immediately, while other get denied over and over. Very frustrating!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Glogs Due

Today, Glogs are due. About five of my 22 students have been having a very hard time saving. I spoke to a Glogster representative last week, and they assured me that the problem was fixed, however, these five students have continued to lose all of the new work that they add to their Glogs. I may have to extend the deadline for these students. I wonder why Glogster continues to affect these five Glogs only.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Week 5 Edublog Update

Today, the students are updating their Edublogs for the fifth state they are traveling through. They are researching about the landscape, and describing ways that weathering and erosion; by living organisms, wind, water or gravity, affect the land. Since we have started our chemistry unit, they have some identifying of vocabulary words. Students will be identifying elements versus compounds. They will also recognize objects as physically changing or chemically changing.

Update on Glogster: The "Support Team" emailed back, and fixed the saving problem. Students worked on those after they finished their Edublog updates for week 5. Phew, I'm glad that problem is fixed. Many of my students finished their Glogs and will be publishing them next week.