Kidpedia is a blog that has been created by 5th grade students at Mattawan Later Elementary School. The students have researched many words and topics and have listed them alphabetically. I haven't seen any pictures yet but they are constantly updating and adding to the blog.
Kidpedia
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A Peachey Idea
While I was on Nik Peachey's website I found a website that shows you how to create your own videos. The people look like a combination of Wii characters and Duplo people. You pick the background, cast, type the dialogue and give the characters expressions. Then they perform what you write. Kind of cool. Your class might really like this.
Year of the Ox
Happy New Year! Time.com has some beautiful photographs that shows New Years being celebrated in many asian countries. It's good for showing how different cultures celebrate the new year.
Larry's Lists include Math!
Larry Ferlazzo located an interesting website that includes help teaching students about telling time. The explanation is very clear and precise and then it allows your students to practice with analog and digital clocks. There's also explanations for flips, slides and turns and they too allow your students to practice. Check it out.
Larry's Lists
Larry Ferlazzo is a man of lists. He has found some helpful sites to aid ELLs read and speak English. One that he found that would be very helpful for elementary school students in Prince George's County is Word Builder. It reinforces the skills that we teach. I highly recommend having your students checking it out.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Don't Be Afraid
Basics for Beginners helps teach us about the vocabulary of the internet. We are given suggestions on how to embrace the new language. It is also suggested that we seize the opportunity to find a blog or wiki and respond to it. Don't be afraid. Go out and explore the world wide web.
Are My Students Bloggable?
After reading J. Black's article entitled Thinking about Teaching Blogging to your Kids? I'm personally stuck on phase 2. I'm trying to think how blogging can truly be useful for my students. I teach at a Title One school and I may have three or four students who have computers with internet access at home. I've been taking my class to the computer lab every week for the past few weeks, trying to get them comfortable with the keyboard. I'm just not sure that they're ready. They're not very good at writing and I'm not convinced that an unstructured format where they're potentially just responding back and forth to each other will help them become better writers.
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