Comments on: Blogging With High School Students: Roslyn Green’s Story

By: Roslyn Green

Roslyn Green — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:58:48 +0000

Dear Libby,
Thank you very much indeed for your kind comments on my ex-blog! I was able to transfer the old German blog to https://edublogs.org/ with the very kind help of the people at Edublogs, but I had decided to retire by the end of 2020 and felt rather dispirited after the archiving of everything I had created on the Global2 platform.

Despite all that, I’ve recently rebuilt the German Island blog completely at https://germanisland.edublogs.org/. I think that it is now more cohesive and navigable than ever before. I am publishing a new post every week and I have reworked nearly all the pages and fixed up the links. So it’s up and running, whereas back in April nothing would have been working properly. I do hope that you and your friends and colleagues can find some useful and engaging materials on it. I’ve updated all my quizzes with new pictures and made about 40 new quizzes and activities as well.

All the very best and thanks again from Roslyn Green

By: Barry Stofberg

Barry Stofberg — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:31:50 +0000

In reply to Elizabeth (Libby) Edwards.

Hi Elizabeth, so glad to see you enjoying Roslyn Green’s Story in Blogging With High School Students! Roslyn’s blog has been moved to a different URL and can be found here https://germanisland.edublogs.org/

By: Elizabeth (Libby) Edwards

Elizabeth (Libby) Edwards — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 12:55:11 +0000

Hi Roslyn. I was excited to finds your blog. I loved your German Island resource and lessons ideas. I was sad to see that it has been archived. Is there any chance you’d be willing to share it again??

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By: Kathleen Morris

Kathleen Morris — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 02:45:30 +0000

In reply to Bec. I'm sure Roslyn will be thrilled to hear that, Bec. I too got lots of new ideas from hearing about her work! :)

By: Kathleen Morris

Kathleen Morris — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 02:44:52 +0000

In reply to LISA MEYER.

Hi Lisa,

This is a good question. There’s really no right or wrong answer. While I personally liked having a class blog before student blogs, others dive straight into student blogs from the start and it works out wonderfully for them!

I think the main thing is that if you start without any student involvement, it’s good to eventually get the students involved — even if that’s just through comments and interactive content, like Roslyn.

As for your dilemma, you can always start slowly with the student blogs. Even if they just publish once or twice a month while also being a part of the class blog. That might work well?

Hope that doesn’t confuse you too much, Lisa! 🙂

By: Bec

Bec — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:25:38 +0000

Wonderful ideas to bring learning into the 21st century! I can definitely implement these ideas and will use blogging for many of my lessons! Thank you

By: LISA MEYER

LISA MEYER — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:48:42 +0000

I loved looking at Roslyn’s blog and now have more ideas of my own. But, I am questioning whether I should have had my students create their own blogs at this stage of the game for me, a novice. I am thinking it may have been better to use my classroom blog for them to work and learn from?? Hmm, but I have dove in head first, wondering how I combat this or if I keep plowing forward?

P.S. I think I need to spend far more time exploring what she has done with her various blogs.
Lisa Meyer