Hello world - we’re back! May 2, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in blogging, minilegends.Tags: minilegends blogs blogging elearning education authenti
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This is Phase 1 of our return to blogging.
[Phase 2 is when we have all the right permissions for students to contribute to and appear on our class blog. Phase 3 is when we get our old student blogs back or new ones created.
http://alupton.edublogs.org/ is now Al's own personal blog. It should be viewed using the same 'safe and savvy' techniques you use wherever you are on the internet. It is not a class, school or education department blog. You can see the page with all the comments about our class blog being closed there. You can also see the framework we have all contributed to so we can get blogging again. Let's hope it helps other students and teachers as well.]
There are certain rules we need to follow right now.
There will be no photos or names of students - no identifying information at all.
Until further notice, only Al will add posts or pages to this blog.
Subscribers may add comments. These will all be moderated by Al. As administrator I reserve the right to not approve comments - there will be no justification.
[Very soon a Subscriber User Policy will be added to the pages above]
minilLegend students may only refer to themselves by ‘mini’ followed by a number eg mini17, mini24.
You might have noticed that our old blog Al Upton and the miniLegends 08 doesn’t exist anymore. We are still very much connected only now we are
Al Upton and the minilegends 08 
And to remind ourselves of our strong sense of community (meerkats) and global connections (our old clustr map) we have a new class blog avatar.
Feel free to add a comment.
PLEASE REMEMBER: This is a class blog and comments should be responses to the miniLegend’s learning and/or their blogging experiences. Broader dialogue comments here please.
Minis … please don’t forget that this is your blog and you can still have a lot of input into what appears here. I look forward to Phase 2 and 3 of our framework happening very soon.
We can always negotiate as we do with all our student centered learning.
Cheers, Al 
go for it Minilegends! Good to see you back online again…
Welcome back miniLegends! My Year 3 class will pop in to have a look at your work and comment. Have fun learning.
Grace Kat
Great to see you all back - we’ll look forward to seeing your work, MiniLegends!
Love the new avatar. Great to see you back online ready to work in a global community again.
Welcome back miniLegends!
The AllStars are so glad that you are blogging again
Have fun
Good to see the return of the Minilegends. Regards to you all from Altan at
http://altan.edublogs.org
I’ve drawn inspiration from you blogging experience and learned along the way. Thanks Al,
Altan.
Welcome back …welcome back…….welcome baaaaack
Sheesh…mini 1,2,3,4,5 etc.
Go for it guys…….be there and know that we will too
The miniLegends are back! How cool is that
Looking forward to reading lots of new posts
Jean A
We’re here for you! Glad to know you’re back in the world of learning; let us know what you need from us! We can still learn from one another!
Go minis! Go!
And best of luck with your new blog!
Michael C.
I have been learning how to use Web 2.0 in a school context (see my practice blog http://lisahill.globalteacher.org.au) and found your blog via the Edublogger. I am so impressed! I had assumed that blogging was for older students, starting at about year 5. Your blog shows how an imaginative teacher can use Web 2.0 with much younger children. I shall follow your adventures with interest.
Best wishes to all your little minis!