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I thought I was all set up for tomorrow, the first day of school.

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Well, I thought I was all set up for tomorrow, the first day of school.  Surprise!  That’s why it’s always important to have an emergency lesson plan, even for the first day of school. I’ve written here about the merits of having an emergency lesson plan just in case the wheels fall off my wagon.  Well the wheels feel off all right, or at least one of them did. Not to worry, though. I’ve got my emergency lesson plan right here next to me.

I decided to start a class blog for my grade nine math class. All went well with setting it up using Edublogs. (I love Edublogs because it’s very user friendly. )  Those of you who have had Tribes training will recognize the community circle and the “Partner Interviews” activity that I’m using as an icebreaker and a way for us to get to know one another better.  I’ve  also added some links in the right sidebar to some fun math sites. I’m sure my students will like to explore these.

The math class blog is not the problem. The Advanced Learning Strategies is the problem.  I  started The Advanced Learning Strategies blog  last semester, and it was a hit with my students  so of course I intend to continue with it. But, something went wrong today.  I really don’t know what, yet. I can’t log into it to update it for tomorrow. I’ve sent an email to the Edublogs support department, and I’m sure they’ll get back to me soon.  In the meantime,  I’ll just photocopy my emergency lesson tomorrow morning and that’s that!

I hope all the photocopiers are working.

Photo thanks to listorama at  Flickr

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2 Responses to “I thought I was all set up for tomorrow, the first day of school.”

  1. Mathew on September 1st, 2008 9:04 pm

    That’s too bad. I had a problem once with Edublogs suddenly deleting my account. I hope they get it straightened out for you and am glad you have a backup plan. There’s always wordpress.com which is also free and uses the same platform as edublogs if you want to set up a new blog.

  2. Elona Hartjes on September 2nd, 2008 2:11 am

    Mathew,
    Thanks for the tip about wordpress.com. I may just do that.

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