I wish I was there right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found lots of pictures on Flickr but I would worry about my students finding pictures they do not not to see.  I could choose pictures for them and let my students write a story about the pictures.

Picture by M_Eriksson

Watch my great slideshow: If you give a third grader homework———

I have not noticed the CC logo on websites but I am sure I will look for this logo. I think students need to be aware of copyright laws and how to cite them on assignments.  I have used digital images on my webquest and I put cited these at the end of the webquest. I put a homework sheet on our school’s webpage weekly for the parents and students.  I get so many wonderful ideas from other teachers through the web and networking.  It is so easy to find lesson plans on the web anymore. Anyone could claim ideas as their own because of the web but how do you stop it?

It is a Wiki, Wiki World out there.  I enjoyed looking at the wikis especially Dr. Seuss was a great sight and Go West was a good sight for students to share about the Oregon Trail.  I teach third grade and I was especially interested in Go West and I did find some ideas that I could use in my classroom.  The wiki reminds me of Webquest which I took a few years ago and based the web quest on Charlotte’s Web.  My students enjoyed this site after I read the book to them.  I wish there was more time in my day to work on technology.  I am wondering how it can be used for early childhood students and the time taken to keep up with the wiki.  I hope I can try using a discussion question and let my students answer on the wiki.  I read a chapter book to them  daily and I think they would be happy to answer a question about the story.

When I was blogging I found a display of bulletin boards and found a math concept I just taught today.  It was a project for the students to take their handprint and slide/flip/turn their handprints to show these three ways of movement and to show an arrow as to how they moved their handprint.  I used die-cut shapes I already had on hand and my students enjoyed this activity.

http://usefulwiki.com/displays/feed/

I am finding it is takes a lot of time to read blogs and I needed this extra week to work on blogs  between interim reports and grading papers.