reflection post vance

This quarter was possibly my most favorite quarter to blog about, mostly because of all of the cool things that we have been doing this quarter. Some examples are: bodies reviled and the dissection of the hearts. Despite all of this I have had some difficulties in blogging. of all problems that I have had, the hardest to overcome was getting my posts and comments done on time or at all ( as you can see because this post is one day late).

Refelction post

I really enjoyed blogging this quarter. I liked that we were allowed to see the other class's blogs. I did not really enjoy the part that every week we had to comment on the blog. Also, I did not like the part that we had to comment on all 3 blogs. I liked seeing what the other class's were doing in class and I learned from them too. Overall I will do this again next year.

Reflection Post Reza

I thought overall that this quarter's blogging was the best and most fun one yet. But there was one part of it that I thought was a little bit hard. I think that the hardest part of blogging was the commenter posts. I think this because it was frequent and we had to do it every week. Another part of blogging this quarter's blogging I didnt like is commenting to other classes. I didnt like it because of the fact that will either learn it or we learned it. Overall though it was a very fun project.

Reflection post

I think that the whole blogging concept is very helpful for learning and getting used to using technology. Some things I did not really like were that, we had to comment on a blog post every week. Another thing I did not like was that, we had to include how we use what we learned in class in every day life. I really liked that we were allowed to comment on all three middle school blogs. It was a great time to see how and what other people are learning. I really enjoyed this project and hope its going to be even better next year.

End of Year: Reflection Post

In this post I will share my feelings on blogging.

Overall, I think it was a really cool project. (Even tough I didn't like the comment every week part.) I loved reading what other people have to say on the subject we had been learning. I also really liked reading what the other grades were doing. But the best part was learning these different things. For me, "these different things" included learning how to embed a link and upload a picture. I would totally do this again and can't wait to read next-year's blogs!

However, there were some down-sides. One of them was the comment per week. Actually, that wasn't the bad part. The part I didn't like was having to have specific amounts of comments to each blog. I always forgot which blog I had commented to, and I think it would've been easier just to have to have 9 comments, at least one to each blog.

And here are some things I think should happen next year!

1. Change the background each quarter! The background on our blog, after 3 quarters, is kind of boring. Changing the colors could be really fun!

2. Scribes should definitely be in touch with other schools! It would be so much fun to be able to see what other science classes around the world are doing!

3. Have a quick "reminder" lesson each quarter on how to add pictures, links, videos to a blog post at the beginning of each quarter so the less "tech-savvy" people could still have really cool posts!

In conclusion, I really liked blogging and can't wait to see how next year's blogs look!

Alix's reflection post

I think that we shouldn't do this project again. It eventually became a hassle. We had to write reviews on the exact same thing we had just learned. The problem with blogging was that it was slightly irritating. It was easy to comment, but difficult to blog, because there wasn't much stuff to talk about to make a blog post that was more than 2 paragraphs. There was also the fact that you would have to check the blog everyday to know if you were the one blogging (Though I must admit, I personally depended on friends for that). I also didn't like the fact that although it was started off to replace our Moodle, it didn't help us with worksheets or study notes, since it only (occasionaly) gave links to the assignments on Moodle. I did like the fact that it let me see what the 8th and 6th graders were doing. All in all, this is not something I'd like to do again.

Reflection post

Throughout this three-quarter long blogging assignment I enjoyed being able to read other peoples point of view of the class. I however didn't like the fact fact that whenever I tried to post something it came out wrong somehow. For example the font was smaller in a certain part. I looked perfect in compose but when I published it came out wrong. I found out it was because of a code error in the HTML part. Also most times when I tried to publish something a message came up saying I couldn't publish there was the word META in my code. When I went to the code I found lines and lines of useless code and it was there where this meta was. I found this the most difficult and unlikeable part about blogging. The thing I found the easiest was summarizing the class. I believe that the use of technology was helpful in the class but the technology could be better.

Viktor's Reflection Post

This quarter of blogging has been the most fun one so far. We had to do one comment per week, which I think was very good because we had to check the blog regularly. Blogging is an excellent use of technology in school, because it keeps us up to date with homework and it reminds us of what we did in class. I hope we continue to do it next year. I had one problem with Blogger though - it was very hard to move around the pictures and make them bigger and smaller. My favorite quarter of blogging this year was the 3rd quarter, because we had to do only minor comments and making the Scribe Posts was easier.

All in all, I think that we should do blogging for all subjects, or we should have a complete 7th grade blog - the same one for all subjects.

My Blogging Experience (4th Quarter)

This quarter blogging was one of our top science priorities. There were a lot of things that were different from the previous blogging. We had a lot to learn and write about this quarter. I like blogging and I think it's useful to all students, even though some might not agree. Like in the previous blogs we had to comment on different blogs. All together we had to make 8 comments. Three for 8th grade three for 7th grade and 2 for 6th grade. It was 6th grades first try at blogging and they did a really good job. We also had to make a comment every Friday. Which I think was helpful because then you could see what was for homework. But also to review the things that we might of missed or to review for a quest. Overall I really liked blogging this quarter.

Fabi's Reflection Post

Hey everyone!
Thanks once again for a great 4th quarter blogging!
It was even better this time because we've all become blogging masters.
I liked blogging because I was sick for a couple of science classes and the blog helped me in catching up. I'm glad we're doing it again next year. Sometimes blogging was challenging. For example, when posting comments, I found it hard to include science in my writing. I liked blogging more this quarter because we could comment on the 6th grade blog as well and it was fun to find out what they're doing. Also, I learned a lot from reading the scribe posts on the 8th grade blog, and am looking forward to doing it next year. I also enjoyed blogging because a lot of people included videos and pictures that were helpful. Some of the information on our blog helped when studying for the science quest, and some of the reminders were useful as well. Sometimes, when I hadn't brought in my organizer, I checked the blog for help. Overall, I'm glad we came up with the idea of a blog!

Julia Reflection 4th Quarter

First of all, I would like to say that I enjoyed blogging throughout the last two quarters. I actually liked to write scribe posts and summarize what happened during class. Being able to provide information about class to people, and knowing that they learned at least one fact about Science, made me feel very content about my work. However, I didn't really like using Blogger.com because I have had difficulties with uploading pictures to the blog, but in the end I managed to solve these problems. I found the writing part of the scribe post rather easy, but adjusting the font and color was kind of hard in some aspects. I do think that using technology during class was a wise choice; our blogs could be shared to a huge group of people and we were also being Eco Friendly at the same time. Although some parts of technology didn't come easy for me, I do think blogging was very worthwhile and enjoyable.

Final Reflection Post, 4th Quarter Blogging

During this quarter we were expected to write a scribe post, a reflection post and a comment to 6th, 7th, or 8th grade blogs each week! We had to write three minor comments on the seventh grade blog, three minor comments to the eighth grade blog, and two minor comments on the sixth grade blog. I enjoyed blogging this quarter as much as the other quarters. It was interesting and anybody absent could really see and underdstand what he or she missed that day/those days. I enjoyed blogging the most this quarter because we were already very familiar with this task! I didn't like blogging for a similar reason as for all the other quarters. It was because, even though I did write everything on Blogger first, it still gave me issues with pictures and it didn't want to listen to me after a couple of tries. The easy part about blogging was that we had to write only minor comments and I think that it was more organized when we had to write one comment each week, because earlier some people would always wait for the last minute to write their comments. The only part that was challenging this quarter was when we had to include an explanation of how what we did in class, that day we were scribing for, had to do with every day life. It wasn't extremely hard but it was something different and we had to think about that a little more, and some students forgot to include it in their scribe post. All in all this years blogging went well!

Noam's Reflection Post

I liked this quarter blogging because we got to look at the Canadian blogs. I liked the blogging and the idea of putting a quote on what we learned. I had trouble (again) with the length of the blog post. I really enjoyed the Canadian blogs because we got to see kids our age blogging about their math class. I had some trouble finding the 8th grade blog address. Overall I liked this blogging quarter.

Erik's Reflection Post

In this quarter I liked blogging because we did minor comments and we got to look at the 8th graders Blog. We posted comments on their blog. The best thing is that we could post videos, pictures and stuff. The one thing I think I can work on with blogging is starting the requirements earlier. Then I could comment more on what people wrote. The picture to the left shows when friction is used to slow down a polar bear. Enjoy! Overall, I liked blogging.

Iva's Relection Post

Our blogging criteria was different this quarter than the blogging criteria from the second quarter. During the third quarter we had to write 1 blog post and minor 4 comments, containing 2 on our blog, one on the eighth grade blog and one on a Canadian blog. One thing I didn't like about commenting was that on the eighth grade blog when I wrote a comment, our teacher did not get a notification that I commented, and I had to comment again. I wrote quite a lot so that made me frustrated. This time I had no problem with scribing for the blog post because I typed right into blogger instead of typing on a word document and then copy-pasting off of the word document. All in all I enjoyed blogging this quarter more than the previous quarter!

Reflection Post-Fabi

This quarter's blogging experience was an interesting one. I liked it better than the first one because we didn't have to make major comments, and because we could comment on the eigth grade, seventh grade and Canadian blog. I liked reading the comments from other people that commented on my scribe post, because none of them included criticism, and most of them were helpful and nice. When I was sick one day, I used that day's scribe post to find out what I missed. Altogether, blogging this quarter was great.

Reflection Post

This quarters blogging was different than the previous quarters. We had to make 4 comments in total and one blog post. We were supposed to comment on the Canadian, 8th grade and our blog. I really liked that we did not have to write major comments for all the blogs or put a link like last time. I also liked that the Canadian students commented on our blog posts. I did not like that blogger sometimes deletes the post or comments that i wrote. I think that blogging is a great opportunity to see how other blogs look like.

Reflection Post

In this quarter I liked blogging because of the fact that we only had to make minor comments and no major link comments. I also liked the fact that we got to talk to the 8th Grade about their blog posts were. We also got to comment on school math blogs in Canada. The part I liked about commenting on Canada was that we got to learn some new math terms. The part I did not like about the blog was that it was difficult for me to find the other blogs in Canada. The hardest part of the blog was to find the creatitivity to write an interesting scribe post so that people could read it and understand.

Reflection Post: Comments on Other Blogs.

During the third quarter we worked on simple machines. Our blog was full with pictures of srews, levers, wedges... We also started working with the Canadian blogs. We read and commented on their posts. Since the 8th grade started blogs, we were assigned to comment on their posts. I think that commenting on others people's blogs was the hardest, since it got hard to understand what they were talking about if we hadn't learned learned what they learned.
Other than that, blogging this quarter was a lot more fun, even if it was more advanced. I can't wait to continue this quarter.

Alix's reflection post

This project was unique. I can't say I liked it, but I can't say it was boring. The problem with the interest level of the blog was that it was just a review of things we had just learned. The other blogs were slightly difficult to understand, because the other authors would often add information about the topics they had learned before, so we would have to go and check up the other topics, then others, and more. The hardest part of blogging was when Blogger would malfunction and we would have to rewrite the entire comment/scribe post.