Comments on: Online Icebreakers

By: inpi

inpi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:22:12 +0000

Carla,
Thank you again for all your support, your permission to translation and prompt help!
As I translate as an “amateur” feel free to correct me whenever you think it’s needed.
I will follow your links and will tell you how things are going for me. I totally agree that it is essential to connect with parents and to know deeply how to apply the security rules.
At this moment I’m posting about what we are going to do in the classroom for the first trimester.
Hopefully the Students Blogging Competition will help my students to grasp what being a kid on line is all about, as the adult Comment Challenge has been to me a school of “life-on-line”.
I’ll see you soon, Beijos
Ines

By: inpi

inpi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:26:49 +0000

Hi Carla,
Thank you for so many great tips and suggestions! My classes will begin in 2 weeks, so it is very handy to know how to apply a nice icebreaker.
I have been slowly realizing, along the past weeks, that my kids, actually, are almost not allowed to play with web2.0 tools, after all.
Now I also understood that I must go and check up in every tool site where it is written “not allowed for under 13 years” or something of the sort.
I wonder if I have to read all the “required conditions” of each site, previous to register, in order to find that clause… do you know where I must look to find it quickly?
Carla, I’m so disappointed about it, my young students will be sad when they know it.
I have started a new blog in Portuguese, just for them, but I have to change it now, as there is no room for plenty of web tools I thought would be great for the classes.
I hope you and your family can ride the storms in safety.
Saudades do País Irmão,
Ines

By: Edward Kim

Edward Kim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:27:53 +0000

Great idea with having students email photos to a class album. It could make the classroom much more interactive.