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It’s Official – We’ve gone INTERNATIONAL!
Filed Under (From Mr. Lund) by Daniel Lund on 13-11-2008 and tagged communication, continents, countries, map, world, wow
Three months is all it took for our classroom blog to reach four continents! We’ve reached the World Wide Web! Our discussions, activities, thoughts, emotions, challenges, trips, struggles, posts, and comments are no longer JUST a parent communication tool to connect our school with the homes in our small town - Chatham. We are sharing our classroom with people in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia! This includes the following countries: United States, Canada, Australia, England, and South Korea. Can you find these countries on a map? What are your thoughts? Feelings? Reactions?
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22 Responses to “It’s Official – We’ve gone INTERNATIONAL!”
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November 14th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Wow! It is so awesome that your site has reached out to so many places! Way to go, 5LN!
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November 14th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Wow! It is very cool that people around the world have been on your blog and are intersted in what is going on in Chatham, Illinois! I wonder if there are classroom blogs in other countries that you could check out. Maybe you could find out what fifth graders in Australia are learning about!
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November 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Wow! Your classroom is truly connected around the world. Great job, 5Lund! Have you learned about classrooms from other countries? Which country interests you the most?
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November 14th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Hi, Mr. Lund’s class. That is really awesome. By the way, what is the most far off country that posted on your edublog?
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November 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
WOW!thats a lot of people.
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November 15th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I think that it is really cool that our class is connected around the world.I think it is cool because now not just people in our state but people cheaking our blog all around the world so were not just posting to poeple in our school!
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November 15th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
That is cool other people posted where did the post? I heard that you are tring to be the best blog are you winning?
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November 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Michael,
Thank you for the comment. At this time, our visitors from other countries have not posted any comments. Won’t it be exciting when they do?
Mr. Lund’s Fifth Grade blog is not trying to be better than other blogs. I’m excited to see all the new comments on the gisreading.edublogs.org site. Mrs. Ebener’s class also has a blog. In December, our classes might challenge each other to see which site can get the most communication and feedback.
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November 15th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Wow! Well done to Mr Lund and 5LN. Here’s your first comment from New Zealand. We are a bit younger than you, a class of Year 4 children (aged 8-9) in Hamilton, New Zealand. You can see our blog here http://glenview9.wordpress.com and our wiki here http://glenviewnine.pbwiki.com
Our school year starts in February and finishes in December. It is nearly summer here – we have heard a cicada.
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November 16th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I am glad I came across your blog. The students here are creating, and writing, and connecting with others. Keep up the good work!
Mr. Hodgson
Norris Elementary School
Southampton, MA, USA
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November 16th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Hi there Mr Lund’s class from Rochdale in the UK. Thank you for your comment on our blog. We have read Dr Seus…The cat in the hat is a great favourite here…but my personal favourite is Green eggs and ham I really love that story.
Well done on some interesting book reviews I look forward to sending my students here to get the low down on some American book……P>S> Ever read a book called Jane Blonde…its great!
Bye Mrs C.
http://pirates5.edublogs.org/
http://mrscunningham.edublogs.org/
http://class2writers.wikispaces.com/
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November 16th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
It’s very exciting to get comments from around the world, isn’t it? Congratulations on your wonderful blog. We linked our fourth grade class blog from Whitefish Bay, WI to your class blog. Please visit ours when you have a moment – thank you!
http://mskreul.edublogs.org/
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November 16th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Amazing how far we have come from when I was in 5th grade. Great job and safe travels.
(Donna is Mr. Lund’s sister-in-law. She is realllllly old and from Indiana. I think she carried her lunch to school is a pail!) (Just kidding, Donna! Thanks for the visit! -Mr.Lund)
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November 17th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Wow! Thats so cool that we’ve gone international. It’s really cool we have people from all over the world. How many posts do we have so far?
—Mason,
I agree that it’s interesting to see other people reading and commenting about the activities in our classroom. What do you think we should post about that would interest other people? Current events? US history from the viewpoint of a fifth grader? Any ideas?
- Mr. Lund
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November 18th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Hello from Down Under at Berwick Lodge PS. I have enjoyed your class videos, especially the ads, and the Maths problems on your blog. Thank you for your comments on our blog, I hope we can keep in contact.
Mrs. Smethurst the ICT teacher
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November 19th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I have posted on some of the blogs around the world
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November 21st, 2008 at 3:07 am
I noticed you didn’t have a dot on your Clustrmap from where I am in Australia so here it is! Hello from Perth, Western Australia and keep up the excellent work with your class blog.
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November 21st, 2008 at 4:41 am
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November 25th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Hi Mr Lund!
Thank you for visiting us! My kids are studying for their tests now, they won’t come back so soon. Meanwhile, I can assure you we do recycle: at school, at home, and we also use the “three R”; just check it out at my student’s blog:http://madalena12cad6b.edublogs.org/
I’m glad you’ve gone international, and, as Sue waters says, here is a red dot with greetings from Portugal.
Ines
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November 25th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I am wondering for the people from different counries, how did you find out blog?
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November 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I can’t believe how much are class room blog has spreed around the world in so little amount of time. I am very excited to see where else in the world that our blog will spreed to. I think that it would be really cool to see how different blogs around the world look and soon talk to other class room blogs to see what they do in school to compare with what we do in school. I am hoping for other comments from around the world this year.
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December 1st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Hi all,
Congrats on going international. I have been working on starting a blog with my 5th grade students and was wondering if you have any tips for getting our blog out there so that others will read it.
Ms. Wilson
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