Posted in Cool Tools, Readings/Twitter on May 16th, 2009 No Comments »
I learned about this site through our CFF listserv. It has potential for classroom use especially as an alternative to students “googling” for basic data and statistical information. Only about half of my inquiries ran and returned usable data for what I was looking for. It was just released on May 14 so it will [...]
Posted in Student projects on May 16th, 2009 No Comments »
On Friday I worked with the entire Knights team at Centerville Middle School to begin their Middle Ages Encyclopedia on wikispaces. Michele Waltz, the Knights Social Studies teacher, wanted to incorporate technology into her curriculum and create a resource for her students at the same time. In collaboration with Deb Getz, CMS librarian we created [...]
Posted in Student projects on May 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Want to learn more about biomes around the world and why they are important to save? Ask any seventh grade student from LMS. The entire 7th grade both Knights and Nobles are learning about biomes by creating a digital story about their biome, the organisms that live there and how humans have affected the biome. [...]
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