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six words August 26, 2007

Posted by Al Upton in 6 words, Blog Challenge, Edublogs, connect, fun, learning, miniLegends.
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Ernest Hemingway was a very famous author.
He was encouraged to write a story in just six words.
Here is one that he really liked and thought was one of his best works … so the story goes.

‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn.’ [This started a brilliant class discussion]

Please add your own 6 word stories in the comments.

Please let other people know so they can visit us and join in the fun.

We will collect them and present them for everyone to share.

Our negotiated task

Write a ’story’ using 6 words.
our 1st one - by Kyle “We have lots of fun here”
It can be any 6 words but sentences are good too
no swear words, it must be appropriate for our age (8 and 9 year olds)
remember ! “…” , ? capitals . ‘
it must be a story, give the sense, idea or part of a story … people can read into it what they want
twists (unexpected endings) are fun

minLegends - write as many as you like for a post in your own blogs but please add a comment here with your best one.

Click here to read some examples - opens ‘6 words’ page above in a new window
— feel free to leave comments there as well

Our Google Map August 25, 2007

Posted by Al Upton in Blog Challenge, connect, learning, miniLegends.
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This is a map of our school and a couple of other things. The marker points to our door - we have the classroom looking over the oval. We plan to add more to the map like pictures, text, sound (if we can) and video!

We decided that too many videos and interactive sites embedded in the blog can slow things down at school and make people not want to visit so we are putting in more links.
This screenshot is our first attempt that didn’t save for some reason

We have/will also put a link to our school/classroom location in a textbox widgit in the sidebar.

Here is a link to our archives (older posts) when we looked at maps and navigation

http://alupton.edublogs.org/maps-latitude-and-longitude/

This link to other sites -
last year’s miniLegends blog (thinking about how we might blog this year)
http://alupton.wordpress.com/2006/12/11/writer-for-the-kids-2007/ includes maps.

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