Where In The World Are We?

One day recently, I asked my 5th graders, "What is the name of the continent that we live on?" I had a student honestly reply, "China". This prompted, #1, a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, and # 2 the quick reply of creating a powerpoint and follow-up activities to reinforce the important Geography skills that seem to get pushed aside these days.

Where in the World Are We?

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THING 10

Today we worked on Screencasts!!!
Mine is a really rough work, but you get the idea:)

Thing 9: New ways to Kickstart a project!

My second son, Christian, is a musician. We gave him his first guitar at 15 and he's never put "them" down. He is passionate about using his gifting and talent to lead others to Christ through music. His band is headed to Nashville this spring to record...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/christianbaxterband/help-support-christian-baxter-band-record-project



Using this strategy to help fund this project is an awesome way to give people a way to be a part of the project and know that they have invested well and have a vested interest in the CBB!

Check out the link and enjoy!

Thing 8 - mashups

I really enjoyed playing with Spell with Flickr, Flickr Color Pickr & Big Huge Labs.
If there were ample time and availability of technology on a daily basis, I could see some fun 5th grade spelling activities, especially useful for students who need a visual image to connect with a word.
Color Pickr was cool and I could foresee awesome art projects growing from this site.
Big Huge Labs was amazing just in the variety of applications that are available. I really loved the pocket photo album. I will personally use that for pictures of my grandgirls.
I think that I don't explore enough on the internet. This is due to my internet connection at home being slow compared to the standards today...I have a satellite service that if rather frustrating. boo to slow internet :(

Thing 7 - Flickr

Flickr is a wonderful site with endless possibilities! I signed up (luckily through the new gmail option!) with the hope to incorporate it some way in my classroom this year. I can think quickly that "a picture is worth a thousand words" would be a great writing prompt for descriptive writing. Or, have the students find a picture of something that they are studying in Science and have them annotate facts. Another thought would be after reading a biography, annotate an image of this person with facts for presentation.