Thank you!

Thank you all for being so patient considering the problems that came up. I will add additional posts to this site and answer questions that come up. I'll check on getting sites with more controls for instructors, however, blogs and wikis are all rather similar, and once you have some experience creating with Blogger, you can easily transfer those skills to another site if necessary.

I hope that you all continue to use this blog as a group, and share your experiences (good and bad) with the others.

Questions on Creating Blogs and Wikis

I realized how different the K-8 environment is regarding social networking sites,where blogs and wikis fall under. The two below are developed for education:

http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki This is a site that would keep student work safe, and is especially designed for educational use.
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

These two are academic blog sites (if regular blog sites do not control at the level you seek)
http://www.21classes.com/shop/features
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial037print.shtml

Additional resources for finding and creating blogs, and adding embedded materials to blogs:
http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3082114
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13856639/Helpful-Resources-for-Finding-and-Creating-Education-Blogs

Wikis

It would be great to set up a wiki, can you send us the sites to help set these up? Thanks for all we accomplished.

Keeping comments and postings in Cyberspace!

When I started using Blogspot, under Settings, I typed my email address for comments, and it sent me the postings I had made. I kept a record under a separate folder in my mailbox in case my postings might be erased accidently. These postings were long as I have been writing alot of family history and I don't want to lose them.

Last Night at My House...

We were all gathered around the dining room table when my daughter said she hear water running. But that coundn't be 'cause the water was shut off last month when I didn't pay the bill,