Well, I started my digital project with my students this week.  I think at the beginning I was more excited than the kids.  But, with most things in teaching, the kids are starting to feed off of my energy and get excited about their opportunities as well!  I introduced the unit blog and had all students get parental consent and sign up (with their parents) for a gmail account.  They were responsible for creating a username and password with their folks.  The gmail account will be their “academic” email.  Next year our school division is looking into getting educational gmail accounts for all of the kids.  I sure hope this comes to fruition.

Today we discussed the intro of How To Blog.  Students had to complete a draft of the blog that they post for their first post to the class blog.  We also took a look at the class blog and they took a keen interest in the Voki that I had created.  I think I already have a fair number who have created their own Voki’s (it takes them a fraction of the time to figure things out in comparison to their teacher).  I can’t wait to continue our journey with Media Awareness and the impact of our digital footprints.  I encourage you to check out our class blog as it starts to take form.