What a thrill!

I am having such a great time reading your works! I love that the blog compensates for messy handwriting and presents our writing to cleanly. I love the variety to what people are writing and I can't wait to open the floodgates next week and invite you to read one another's work. On that note, however, I want to include a cautionary note about the nature of blogs. At present, no one but you (and maybe a pal or two) knows your blog address and so it's highly unlikely that anyone besides myself is reading it. Unfortunately, the world isn't always a swell place and there are creepy predator types on the internet and technically speaking-- unless you've already adjusted your settings, your blog is open for anyone to read. For that reason, I encourage you to NOT mention specific people by last name and please steer clear of giving away any pertinent information about yourself (statistically speaking). Once we have everyone successfully enrolled and blogging, I can give you a list of the class members who can and should subscribe to your blog. If you want to block everyone else, do so. If you want the world to stumble upon your genius, do so:)

As often happens with good ideas, I rarely account for how long such activities will take. My guess is that the blog assignment I gave yesterday (the research one) is going to take people longer than another school day. Am I right? So, in that spirit, I will say that the 5 blog research assignment is due at the end of class on Monday. However, I will ask you to post a new blog either on Thursday or Friday.

Another note: The length of people's blogs vary a good deal. Some of this may be due to typing speed and in other cases, to effort put forth. I have not read anything yet that displeases me; in fact, quite the opposite. But, I would caution people against less versus more. If I note that length becomes a persistent problem I'll have to do a word count requirement and that can be pretty lame.

For your Thursday or Friday blog, I would like you to find a quote, lyric or poem that you really like and use that as inspiration for a written discussion with yourself. Cool.