Archive for January, 2008
The Art Teacher From the Black Lagoon
At the beginning of school, we read The Teacher from the Black Lagoonby Mike Thaler. The children enjoyed the book so much that we also read The Nurse from the Black Lagoon, The Principal from the Black Lagoon, The Librarian from the Black Lagoon, The Lunch Lady from the Black Lagoon and The Gym Teacher [...]
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Creating Google Maps with 5th Graders
Well.. we (Valley View 5th Grade Students, Nancy Darling, 5th grade teacher, and I) did it. It took a little longer than we planned, but the end product is a Google Earth map with detail or marker boxes about the world’s biomes, created by these 5th graders.
We all learned quite a bit in the process. [...]
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Playing with uploading Web 2.0 videos
I discovered One True Media when I came across a global project called Voices of the World.
The projects posted on the Voices of the World site were very inspiring and most were done using the One True Media site.
This multimedia project sharing site caught my attention, so I decided to put something together using it. [...]
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