New Year, New Beast

Happy New Year, guys! I hope you are enjoying your winter vacation. Anyone up to anything special or unusual? I'm going on a short cruise in a few days, so hopefully I'll come back to school with a tan, no stress, and ready to buckle down for.....yes, the FCAT. Get ready, because the next six weeks are going to be chock full or work and writing.

In the spirit of a new year, I'm requiring all of the classes to come up with a new name and design for their blog beore my FETC conference at the end of January. I'm going to be showcasing your blogs at a state conference, and I want us to put our best blogging foot forward.

So I want you to (maturely) discuss any new color scheme/mascot/design/name you'd like to have on your blog. Post your ideas to the blog, and then comment on your classmates' suggestions in a constructive manner. Really jazz it up!

Here's the hard part: you have to agree as a group. So if someone doesn't think your ideas are the best, that's OK. (I have ideas shot down all the time!) But work hard to be persuasive to convince everyone, including me. (As the supreme ruler of this blogland, I have final say on what's final. So no "gangsta" "ballin'" or otherwise misspelled/misused terminology, OK?)

The class whose blog is the most original by January 12 wins 5 extra points on their blog assignment for third quarter.

Now get blogging!