Google Tours

I looked and and talked to some of my peers about their Google earth tours. They all had really differnt ideas, one group decided to do famous places where sports teams play, i thought that was awesome because you could even compare it to the coliseum and have them see that we have our own kinds of coliseums in the world. I also talked to Laurie about hers they are going to take their students on a tour of the different places where Native Americas live and i really liked even more that they could have a pop up picture of the kind of houses that they lived in. Lastly there were a few of the wonders of the world, i still didn't even know what they were so I'm sure young kids would really enjoy learning about them so they could be more informed that i am.

Google Earth

I decided to post a link to a castle to set the tone of a book we may read like Robin Hood or such things. Kids love to learn about princesses, and knights in shining armor. I this week i learned that you can make a virtual tour around the world on Google earth. I also found out that wikipedia is set up with the maps so that you can read more about the places that you are searching for. I also think it's awesome that you can take measurements with a ruler and measure the latitude and longitude of each place. This could be used in the science, geography and math units.

Fun Videos!

This week was really fun to see how each group got so into their projects. After viewing a few of them i am amazed at the level of creativity. i really like the hungry caterpillar with the clay it was so cute. I watched a couple that were about books and were kind of reading rainbow style to try and hook my interest, and I'll admit that they did. I didn't know anything about the books they presented and now I'd like to have them in my classroom library! I know that my fifth graders will love to have this kind of opportunity to made things on the computer. What an awesome way to be able to make a movie for history or science. maybe if we're studying geography having them try and be travel guides of certain parts of the world. THis program was easy to use that they would catch on very quickly. I was a fun project.

This is my brother's band and i wanted to show how you can make anything with pictures into a story to help creativity.

Fun Movies this week!!

this week i really learned that making movies and different slides to help engage the class can be really fun. At first i didn't see a need to have a story board i just wanted to dive into it and start making my slide show but i'm glad that i did it so that this next week when we actually make the movie i'll be really prepared and know exactly the steps that i need to take to have a complete and successful slide show. The ideas presented like claymation will be really fun to do in the class even if i haven't decided to do them for this specific project. i think that I'll be using this stuff in my classroom to learn. It will be a lot more fun because of the technology that we can use.

Story Board

This is my story board of a little "fairy tale" that i wrote about my brothers band.