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Google Earth Ancient Rome 3D
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Laura Gibbs commented on Jenn Wilkey's blog post 'Testing Testing'

Hi Jenn, before I switched over to Ning for the blogging last year I came very very very close to doing Blogger.com. The plan I had worked up for that was actually group blogs - I was going to put my students into small groups and have them work on…

August 17

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Jenn Wilkey commented on Jenn Wilkey's blog post 'Testing Testing'

Thanks everyone. I have decided to go with Blogger for this term, and that could always change. I want ease of grading and the RSS feed is going to be essential. I love Ning from seeing it here and may try it out in the future.

August 17

Kay Zimmerman replied to Jenn Wilkey's discussion 'Google Earth Ancient Rome 3D'

I have not been able to enter any buildings either. While it's fun seeing the layout of the ancient city, it is frustrating to feel like we are "missing" some of the features. I'd love to know more about how to access these too.

August 16

Laura Gibbs commented on Jenn Wilkey's blog post 'Testing Testing'

Hi folks, I do my own personal blogging with Blogger.com (I love it), but I have my students blog with Ning.com because they really thrive on the "group" aspect of it, the way that everybody's blogs fit together at the same website, and they also lo…

August 14

Andrew Reinhard commented on Jenn Wilkey's blog post 'Testing Testing'

If you can demonstrate to your school's IT person/people that the site (Blogger or Ning or whatever) is truly private and restricted to the class, more often than not they will let you have special access through the school's firewall. Most K-12 sch…

August 14

April commented on Jenn Wilkey's blog post 'Testing Testing'

My school blocks most of those sites; it maintains a site for blogging for teachers on its own server, but I am not sure that is that useful. Do y'all have any other suggestions?

August 14

Andrew Reinhard commented on Jenn Wilkey's blog post 'Testing Testing'

I use Blogger for four of my own blogs, and I know a number of Latin teachers who use that platform for their classes. I prefer Blogger over LiveJournal or WordPress, but it boils down to personal preference.

August 14

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Hometown/Institution:

St. Ursula Academy

Role in the Classics Classroom (real or virtual):

teacher

Favorite on-line spots for education:

teachpaperless.blogspot.com

Best/worst computer-related classroom happening:

We tried wiki projects last spring: Ancient Greece for the Latin 3 classes and classical movie reviews and creative writing in Latin for the Latin 5 kids. Lots of fun, learned alot.