This was my first post to a student, and Jerry was describing his first day in gymnastics class. You can read about it here. It took me back to old times, and I enjoyed writing to him about what I remembered in elementary school about PE class. This is what I wrote to him:
Hello from Alabama, Jerry! I, like Megan, am a graduate student in the online program at the University of South Alabama in the United States of America. Besides attending school online, I am a full time elementary school media specialist (librarian), so it's great to see you are blogging your experiences so others, like myself, can learn about people around the world.
When I was young like yourself, I remember enjoying PE class, but never had an opportunity to learn gymnastics. It sounds like you had a great first day on the mats, and were excited about your stretching exercises. I think exercising is great, and really love doing yoga.
Thanks for your post, and keep up the great work blogging and enjoying your classes!
"What Goes Around Comes Back Around" is the theme for the wall created by the student's post I viewed this week. Kumiani's wall can be viewed by clicking here. I was intrigued with the app, Padlet, used to create the wall. I haven't used the app before, but have enough interest now to try to use it. It seems to give the user space to create a moving wall of images where text can be created to scroll on top. I really enjoyed this post, and my comments can be viewed below:
Hi! My name is Angel and I’ve been assigned to follow your blog by my professor, Dr. Strange, in a micro computing in education cours. I am a Library Media Specialist and am completing my certification online through the University of South Alabama. I am a 20 year veteran to education, and blogging is relatively new to me, so I’m thankful for the chance to see a variety of blogs, especially ones created using tools I’ve yet to discover. I really like the wall you created using Padlet. Was this your first time designing a wall? Where did you get the topic idea for creating it? Your photos and text match the theme well. Great job! Can Padlet be used in Blogger? Thanks for allowing me to comment. Keep up the good work!
The student I was assigned to view on this class page had not yet made any posts, so I chose Breton. He had recently visited his grandparents' house and found a guitar which had belonged to his uncle in the 90's. He was excited his grandpa gave it to him, and I thought it was cool because I've always wanted to learn to play. Here's what he wrote, and below is what I commented to his post:
What a cool thing to find! I have always wanted to learn how to play the guitar. My mother was a piano teacher or 25 years, and I started playing when I was 5, so I thought since I knew how to play piano and read music I could pick up a guitar and play with no problem. NOT!! They are two completely different beasts. How did you learn to play, and did you take lessons or teach yourself how to play? Even though you have a Les Paul, getting one that belonged to your uncle in the 90's is still really cool.
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