Highlight of the Week
Using skype for videoconferencing and bridgit screen share to enable Jeff Whipple, from Nashwaaksis Middle School / Devon Middle School, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada teach my students about wikis and the flat tales project using his laptop screen, from his home. (Read Jeff’s post and my post.)
- started receiving comments on their blogs which aroused their curiousity and initiated a lot of self-activated learning. (My lesson plans were placed on hold!)
- created avatars using either lego IDs or illustrator IDs
- commenced a further post.
- many have added to their blogs, in their own time, with photos, personal posts, favourite writing pieces from school etc (My hope is that they can take them home and add to them, in an educationally acceptable manner.)
- students are borrowing digital cameras and when queried why “It is for my blog!”
- Year 7 students commenced a post on their pet.
- Grade 6 students completing their digital stories on “From Me To You” project, using MS Photostory.
- Grades 4-6 participated in a lesson brought to them by Jeff Whipple from his home in Canada on using wikis and the flat tales project.
Global Projects
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grade 6 students worked with an English teacher to create words they thought should be in the dictionary. We recorded their audio and will complete the podcast on Monday.
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cards continued to come in from other countries for our Valentine’s project ‘From Me to You”
Favourite website (lots of quick and easy web 2.0 tools that may be useful in classroom)
Blog Post of the Week
http://www.hooversbiz.com/2008/02/13/the-power-of-naive-questions/
(makes me feel better about all the naive questions I seem to be continually asking all the experienced educators out there on web 2.0)
Special blog comment on a classroom without walls
It’s great when kids get so caught up in things they forget they’re even learning… 
by jodhiay
3 responses so far ↓
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Larry Ferlazzo
// Feb 17, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I’m glad you found my list useful. Thanks for sharing it with your readers…
Larry
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Bill Gaskins
// Feb 18, 2008 at 2:26 am
I wish I could be a fly on the wall in your classroom to observe what your students are doing and learning. You must be a wonderful teacher and those students are so lucky to have you. Keep up the good work.
Bill
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Tim Walker
// Feb 19, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Anne — Glad you liked the “naive questions” post. I’ll be writing more in this vein and would welcome your feedback. (I’d love to do a post dedicated to the use of naive questions in education!)
Cheers.
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