<strong>Your Name</strong>: Erin
<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2006/10/24
<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T θ, week of 10/16
<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>6
<strong>The School: </strong>Emmett Till Math and Science Academy
<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Project preparation and execution
<strong>Project Type</strong>: Weblog
<strong>Tools Used</strong>: Wordpress
<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

<em>New Project: I Never Thought I'd Get to call a blog "Charlotte's Web(log)"</em>
Mrs. Jacobson, the primary librarian, is running a book club for a group of fifteen third graders. They'll be reading <em>Charlotte's Web</em> over the course of the semester, and doing lots of writing and creative responses. Mrs. Jacobson and I worked on a <a title="Book Previews" href="http://blog.cuip.net/BookPreviews/">weblog</a> together last year, so she approached me with a well thought-out plan to chronicle the group's progress on a blog. It's currently in its formative stages <a title="Charlotte's Weblog" href="http://blogs2.cuip.net/charlotte/">here</a>.

<em>Specific Ambitions</em>
She has no fear of trial-and-error multimedia projects, so we have ambitions of including
<ul>
	<li>audio recordings of students reading from the book or acting out dialogues</li>
	<li>video responses to reading questions</li>
	<li>photographs of art projects</li>
</ul>
as well as a healthy amount of text-based information, like dictionary definitions of new words, student poetry, and links to research resources.

<em>Problem Solution: Student Logins</em>
We're hoping to allow the students some authorship of the blog, and for the first time we'll be giving them their own WP logins. During registration, Wordpress requires an email address, which certainly we don't expect the students to provide. I got around this by registering an account for each student and taking advantage of the relay00, relay01, relay02 identities of my CNet ID. At no other time in using WP is an email address required, so this should be a non-issue for students who will now be able to login with a username and password.

<em>Problem Solution: Why are we doing this?</em>
I wrote two statements of purpose for the blog and made them WP pages-- one intended for students, and one for parents and teachers.