Week 4 I am NOT ready for my close-up

I am claiming, "It's not how I use technology, it's how the kids use it that counts" for this one. The possibilities are huge, but the amount of time involved is crazy. However, I'd still encourage the teachers to assign movies and photo story 3 products in conjunction with well written papers as worthy projects.

I must say the DE has come a long way with the 9-12 level components, especially in literature and social studies. It's my go-to now whenever a teacher asks if I have anything video on any topic. I really appreciate the district providing it for us.

I tried for three hours to upload my moviemaker video and got fed up. Sorry! I used DE for the clips, saved it to my desktop and to an external drive. Guess it will be one of those times when I say to kids, "Who knows how...?"

Week 3 Google Earth and Reader

The applications for my students for Google Earth are mindboggling:
World Geography-create a real time tour for the spy projects, look at the effects of industrialization using the historical features (or look at restoration of an endangered site-the community feature is amazing)
Foreign Language Department-plan a trip in a country that speaks your language
Language Arts-visit Dicken's England as it is today
Math-go to Mars and use your math skills to plot the course of the Rover

The hardest thing will be clicking off!

My reader is loaded-feel free to browse.
awm

SST week 2

I agree that we should meet digital natives on their own turf. In fact, we should conquer it so we can make all that time they spend plugged-in OUR time.

Set Sail;etc week 1

I'm baaaaack and setting sail to more 2.0 ness. My goal-to get my teachers to move away from paper products, except research papers, and into 2.0 products. First stop Africa tribal projects.