Hi Everyone!

My name is Ms. Martin and I’m the technology coordinator at Cleveland Street School.  Cleveland has a student body of 306 students in grades K-7.  We are very fortunate to have access to an ample inventory of technology devices and resources and our team of tech coordinators are vigorously supporting tech integration to our educators and students throughout the district.  So to that end I dived into Blogging and hope to showcase it as a powerful web tool for digital literacy and global collaboration.

First of all I’m amazed how long and how far and wide students have been blogging.  I’m reading young students blogs from as far as Australia and New Zealand and dated as far back as 2010.   I earnestly want to connect our children with children  from different parts of the world – but first things first on our end.  Students not only need to learn the software and tools for blogging, they need to practice digital citizenship and online safety, and most importantly become conscientious readers and writers, express their ideas and opinions, write comments  and questions on different topics.  Blogging will improve their writing and digital literacy because we will use proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar – texting is not acceptable here.

So please follow us on our journey and encourage us with your comments.  Thank you.

A New Year’s resolution is a tradition in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or get rid of bad habits beginning on or about New Year’s Day.

On your first blog, name at least two resolutions that you made (or will make) for 2016 and explain how you plan to keep it.  But warned –   many people flunk their New Year’s Resolutions.   The main reasons are because they’re too hard to keep or they’re just forgotten.   One helpful tip is to keep track of your progress.   Update your progress on your blog and people will give you support and motivation.

How well will you do?  We’ll check back on your blog  June 2016.  Good Luck!

 This is Cleveland Street School in Orange, NJ.  Our school blog is titled Making it Work – With What We Have, because although the building is      old and we don’t have enough space for an auditorium or cafeteria or sports field, we make good with what we do have.   Sometimes our guests or    presenters ask us “where” and “how”  do we hold school events.  However there is an innovative and creative group of leaders and learners at  Cleveland  and they just pull together resources and make it work.  Our students experience all of the wonderful events as others in the district despite our age or  size.

We are a a K-7 educational institution with 306 students and 50 faulty members.