Join Us!
We’d love to hear what you have to say.
On this blog you’ll find regular posts from different students and teachers around the world. We will be presenting new blogging activities or challenges for you to try. We hope to encourage you to read posts carefully, comment thoughtfully, and write with passion on topics you care about.
We also hope you will use this blog as a place to find new blogs to read. In the blogroll, click on the links for writers in 2008 and 2009.
If you’d like your name and/or class to appear on the 2009 list, please leave us a message on this page.
So, you can…
- pick and choose activities you like and try them on your own class or student blog
- write a comment on this blog with your ideas and thoughts about the activities
- find blogs to read and comment on
- be inspired by some very talented bloggers to improve your own blog.
Please remember to link back to our post if you use it on your blog.
Thanks for stopping by, we hope you’ll join the conversation!
Image: Speech by Tim Morgan
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January 2nd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
[...] Many students wanted to carry on the conversations and friendships, so after many discussion , we now have a new blog run by the teachers and students who took part in the 2008 blogging competition. If you and your class want to join us please visit the new blog and comment under the join us page. [...]
January 16th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Our class is new to blogging (started in December 2008). We would love to expand our network of other bloggers and opportunites to post and reply. We are a fourth grade class from coastal South Carolina. Our classroom website is http://www.mrsheatonsclass.com and our blog site is http://www.mrsheatonsclass1.blogspot.com (which can also be reached through the main class website under “blog”).
Thank you!
Mrs. Heaton
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inpi Reply:
February 6th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Hi Eve!
Welcome to Bringing Us Together. You will surely find new opportunities of making friendly connections for your young students here. Mrs Cunningham is also a teacher of young students, just check her blog too.
Ines
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January 21st, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Hi. My students use blogs to comment on material we have worked on in class. We are covering subjects like: international conflicts, government in both the USA and the UK and movies we have seen, books we have read. They are posted on my website. Would love to share ideas with other teachers and their students. My students are 18 years.
Thank you!
Mrs. Michaelsen
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February 5th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Hi- I’m Jane Hake and my fourth grade class has begun blogging this year. We are really excited about reaching out beyond our classroom! We found this blog through Mrs. Heaton’s blog. We would love to have visitors to our blog and we would love to visit more great blogs like Mrs. Heaton’s!
Please visit our blog, “Live and Learn”
http://www.ateachingheart.blogspot.com
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February 6th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Hi Jane,
Please check out Mrs Cunningham’s classblog and reading club for connecting with other 4th grade students and feel free to bring your young students to our blog too!
Ines
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February 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Hi Folks,
I just found your website through a response by Sue Waters to one of her commenters over at Edublogger.
My name is Gregory Louie and I am a middle school biotechnology teacher in North Carolina. My seventh grade students blog on Class Blogmeister. We review engaging computer activities related to learning biotechnology.
My dream is to have a class blog that will connect my eighth grade biofuels students with a rural village somewhere in the world that is making small batches of biofuels to meet their community’s liquid fuel needs.
At least, that is my vision. I’m busy turning this dream into a reality by searching for NGO’s whose mission is to improve the energy infrastructure in rural villages.
I’ve put some feelers out to two NGO’s in India, but I’ve gotten no response yet.
Stay tuned at:
http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/mrglouie/global.cfm
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March 5th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Hi, My name is Christen Jacobs. I am a sixth grade teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Our students all write about current affairs, to a shared blog. I found out about Bringing Us Together while looking around The Edublogger.
I am most interested in having our students communicate with students outside Australia through a blog or Skype. Congratulations on your initiative. We are at http://ourspace.edublogs.org
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March 7th, 2009 at 4:45 am
Hi Christen,
I’ve just visited your class blog, it’s great!
Please ask Miss W how you must do to join us here at “Bringing Us Together” and also check out her class blog to subscribe your own class blog in the 2009 Student Blogging Challenge that has just started.http://wyatt67.edublogs.org/2009-challenge-register-here/
My students are 6th graders, some of them can write in English – with some help – feel free to visit us too.
I hope to have news from you very soon!
Stora Ines
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April 13th, 2009 at 6:36 am
We are sixth grade students and a Language Arts teacher from Buenos Aires Argentina. We have a blog to comment on material we have worked on in class, for practising different skills, as a means of self reflection or to play games related to the topics seen in class. I am mostly interested in having our students communicate with students outside Argentina through our blog or Skype.
Visit us at
http://yearsixale.blogspot.com. Thank you!
Miss Ale
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May 16th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Hi there. This is Fiona Beal. The class that I am blogging with is a combined Grade 4/5 class in Cape Town South Africa. We are new to bloggng this year, and we are loving it. We have just completed a Senior Citizens project which was such fun, and it took our blogging to new heights. Please visit us on http://fionabeal.edublogs.org. I am really excited to have come across your site.
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June 12th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Hello, my name is Emily Jo Parker. I really like your blog. It is very interesting. Please feel free to visit my blog and leave a comment or a question on the question page. htto://ejp2009.edublogs.org. Thank-you
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June 12th, 2009 at 5:24 am
Sorry http://ejp2009.edublogs.org
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June 21st, 2009 at 12:08 am
I teach a group of Yr 11 & 12 VCAL students in Shepparton Australia and keen to communicate with other students around the world. We are currently following a Big Picture approach whereby students use a personalised learning approach in areas they are passionate about. If you would like to contact me on my wiki please feel fee. http://www.geoffallemand.pbworks.com
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fionabeal Reply:
July 18th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Thanks Geoff. I hope that some of the clases link up with you. Your cartoonist is great!
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July 10th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Hi! I teach 4th graders in New York, USA. I began to blog last september and I am looking to expand my connections outside of the continental USA. If anyone is interested in visiting our blog and perhaps beginning a student blogging connection with us… I would love to hear from you!!!
http://sspata04.edublogs.org
I am looking forward to talking to you all.
PS Your blog is wonderful!!
:O) Serena
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fionabeal Reply:
July 18th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Hi Serena, welcome to this blog! A lot of different teachers from around the world post on this blog and it’s my turn currently. I had a look at your blog – great! I’d love to know how you got the Bubble-share slider to work. It just hasn’t taken to my blog, and your looks so great. Perhaps your class and one of our Cape Town Grade 4 classes can do something collaboratively next term. Let’s think of something!
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November 8th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
We would love to participate in this blog. We as a class are still working on our blogging skills, but the students have loved the blogging challenge so far and are having a great time reaching out to new classes!
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Miss W. Reply:
November 9th, 2009 at 9:07 am
G’day Robin,
I have added your class to the “Class blog” links on this blog. If you want to have your students run the blog for two weeks, then you will need to be a member of edublogs so we can add you as an administrator. Contact me by email if you wish to do this. See link in “About this blog” page.
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November 21st, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Hello Mrs Wyatt,
Our class would really like to take part in this international student blog. We’re on a roll and looking forward to more blogging and another challenge. Thank you for all of the opportunities you are providing.
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Miss W. Reply:
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:18 pm
You are now an administrator, Jaki, so you can add students to be authors or editors as well. Those students will then be able to write directly on the blog or else they send the post to you and you add to the blog with their name on the post.
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Miss W. Reply:
January 5th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Hi Jaki,
You can also add yourself to the links under the teachers and get your students or yourself to write a blurb that you can add to the ‘Who is involved?” page. Lots to keep you busy in the first couple of days of the year.
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Mrs. Braidwood Reply:
January 5th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Hi Sue,
Our class blog link has been added and I’ll get some students started on an “About Us” post for the “Who is Involved?” page.