When I checked out my Blogger this morning, I saw that there were some new entries and comments on 2computacion.blogspot.com the Level 2 English Class Blog. When I went to see the new entries on the Blog, they weren't there.
I have learned that if I get a notification of a new entry but on the blog there isn't anything new it's because the student has saved the entry as a draft or deleted it. Because all students have author privileges but I'm the "owner", I can see what drafts students have been working on. I can even publish drafts, edit entries, or completely delete them.
As a side note, one thing that is important to me is that students retain ownership of their blogs they are using for ePortfolios. I can't directly edit or change their entries on their blogs. It's up to the students to take what I leave in the comment box and revise/improve their published works.
When I saw in the draft box an entry which contained
Possessive
Adjectives Pronouns
singular plural singular plural
1st My----->our 1st mine---->ours
2nd Your-->your 2nd Yours--->yours
His--->their His------>theirs
3rd Her---->their 3rd Her----->theirs
I saw the need to format this information in a way which is a little easier to understand.
Blogger doesn't have an option (at least from what I could find) to insert a table but it does have an HTML editing option. I did a Google Search and found this great book by Andy Harris and Chris McCulloh on Amazon.com HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
.I followed the easy steps and made this
| Singular | Plural |
|---|---|
| my | our |
| your | your |
| his, her, its | their |
in TextEdit.
I copy and pasted the HTML into the student saved draft HTML editor. I copy and pasted and edited it a few times, introducing more columns and rows, until finally something which looks like this
| Possessive | Adjectives | UNPA English |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | my | our |
| 2nd | your | your |
| 3rd | his, her, its | their |
| Person | Singular | Plural |
and
| Possessive | Pronouns | UNPA English |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | mine | ours |
| 2nd | yours | yours |
| 3rd | his, hers, its | theirs |
| Person | Singular | Plural |
I'm happy it turned OK. It was fun to experiment with some very basic HTML editing on Blogger.
You can see the full student entry on the 2Computacion Class Blog here.
