Weekend of Making the Blog

I have been designing my blog this weekend for the Colt Academy 5th graders for my applied project at UGA. I   have blogged a lot but never set one up. I am using Edublogs. I have learned a lot about pages, categories, and tags for blogs. I am planning first lesson for fifth graders on Wednesday.

First Day

I started a blog of my journey of my applied project today. I will be developing a blog for my fourth and fifth grade students who are located in a different building to try to encourage reading. I have emailed my principal  who is wholeheartedly behind the project. Students have access to a computer lab made for them and have 1-2 computers per classroom. They are not able to access the main library; however, the teachers bring them over weekly. I have built up a collection of about 600 books that are kept at the Colt Academy and are checked out by the receptionist. I want my blog to be a a daily way for students to access me and the main media center to meet any needs. I would also like to see how circulation affected and how students reading is impacted by reading and responding to the media center blog.