Posted in Social Studies, The Kneighborhood on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
This past week in school was great. Back to School night was a great success. I’m so glad I met all of your parents. I’m sure your parents were excited to hear about TeacherEase.
I’ve also posted a variety of 9/11 comparison projects for everyone to see. Check them out at the project page.
For those [...]
Posted in The Kneighborhood on May 18th, 2008 No Comments »
So, PACT testing comes to an end this week and that leaves us about 10 teaching days for the kids. If you take away the last 2 days of school, that leaves 8. Then, we need to take away 1 day for “Tiger Fest,” and that leaves 7.
Seven full days of school where the kids [...]
Posted in The Kneighborhood, Web 2.0 on Apr 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
So…slowly I’m gaining recognition in the “blogosphere.”
Recently, animoto.com contacted me about the projects that my classes produced. Nothing special…but they informed me of a classroom password that can give your classes a 3-month all access pass to animoto and everything it has to offer. Although the longer videos might be too much for [...]
Posted in Social Studies, Web 2.0 on Mar 18th, 2008 5 Comments »
Ok. So I spent a few days in the Media Center, sans Cathy Nelson, and had my students complete a project using animoto.com. All things considered…it went really well!! The one major problem that I came across was that only one group was allowed to create a video at a time. [...]
Posted in The Kneighborhood on Jan 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
After much consideration, I’ve decided to postpone the wiki-project. I felt that there was a combination of my under-planning and a lack of interest with the students. I’m a little upset that it didn’t take off like I expected. I feel really bad for the few students that were really into the project. I’m going [...]
Posted in Social Studies, The Kneighborhood, Web 2.0 on Jan 27th, 2008 No Comments »
This week we start our wiki project. I’m a little apprehensive about the entire thing. I’m also excited to see how it turns out. I’m placing all responsibility into the hands of the students. All I’m showing them is how to work with the wiki website. All research and editing is up to them.
Our project [...]
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