Joan says

I explored the Weebly site in the Web 2.0 tools because after looking at 3 others, I felt that this site would benefit me the most at my school.  This year at my school, teachers were given the choice of either using  the school web site to put what the students did in class that [...]

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I really enjoyedd viewing the session called “Video-Conferencing It’s Easy, Free, and Powerful” by Brian Crosby.  In the video, Brian and his class show how to use Skype and Google docs to conference and collaborate writing between classes from all over the world.  it was amazing that fourth graders could do this and collaborate with [...]

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My slide show is about Mesopotamian art and how it relates o the life of Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization.  The ziggurat form was copied by the Egyptians without the steps.  Many Mesopotamian buildings are not longer standing due to the fact that they were made of clay and straw.  Time and exposure weathered these [...]

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I decided to find pictures of Mesopotamian art to help the students see more of what Mesopotamia was like since many of the buildings are no longer in existence.  By looking at more of the art when we are studying Mesopotamia, the students get a clearer picture of an ancient society.  I think getting pictures [...]

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I think that CC seems to be a wonderful tool to simplify the copyright laws.  I teach middle school and the students haven’t been taught about CC.   The librarians usually talk about copyright with regard to research papers…but not powerpoints.  Many students in my class make powerpoint presentations in which they have used photographs from [...]

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The Great Debate 2008 was a very good Wiki in my opinion.  One thing I noticed that I really liked was the u-tube of Obama and McCain discussing their views on an issue.   This make the WiKi more realistic and exciting.   In Discovery Utopias students become involved in discussions about what makes a good society [...]

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I was thrilled to find a great blog website while reading Instructify blog site.  This was a site I had saved in my reader.  The blog web page, “‘Awesome Stories: Connecting Primary Sources from Around the Web” will be so helpful to me, a middle school ancient history teacher.  Although my textbook has some short [...]

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In the blog I read about Teaching Students to Forgive, the main idea is that students are never taught by teachers the social skill of forgiving someone who makes them angry.  This hit home with me because I realized that when I was a student, I was never taught that skill.  Teaching the skill also [...]

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