Day 5 Friday, Aug. 1, 2008 5 videos

I started investigating the possiblities of Volcan Arenal in action and became so enthusiastic that I have more than five sites since I also wanted to remember the Did You Know series. I entered a reminder to myself of the content.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml0lcLEp1A0&feature=related Costa Rica overview 5 min.
E.4. Geography: Students will explain the impact of the target country's geography on
daily life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wJeOTmTfxM&feature=related – Volcan Poas eruption – 17 sec
E.4. Geography: Students will explain the impact of the target country's geography on
daily life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs6y3kZE_C8&feature=related

Volcan Arenal eruption – 1 min E.4. Geography: Students will explain the impact of the target country's geography on
daily life
.4. Geography: Students will explain the impact of the target country's geography on
daily life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs6y3kZE_C8&feature=related

day time eruption of Arenal – 13 seconds
E.4. Geography: Students will explain the impact of the target country's geography on
daily life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m2ICOO3I60&feature=related

close up eruption Arenal
E.4. Geography: Students will explain the impact of the target country's geography on
daily life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

information about internet and literacy Did you know
D.4. Historical influences: Students will begin to be able to explain historical and
philosophical reasons for different patterns of interaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7J_ereCiTo&feature=related
updated version of Did you know
D.4. Historical influences: Students will begin to be able to explain historical and
philosophical reasons for different patterns of interaction


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI&feature=related
information about global population

D.4. Historical influences: Students will begin to be able to explain historical and

Pirates

Last Day

This should be a fun day. I look forward to putting my final touches on a few projects.
I also am excited to see what everyone else accomplished during this week.
I feel overwhelmed with knowledge - in a good way. It'll take time to play around with it all and figure out which programs will be most useful with my students next year.
Thanks for everything!
Sarah

Day 5 John Muir Academy

This has been a great week! I have learned so much. It's been fun exploring and finding so many wonderful websites to use with my class. I hope that we can get access to them at school. I plan on using a couple of them this year and integrate their use into my core subjects. Since we now have Foss Science, I'm thinking that our literacy block would be a great avenue for some of these projects. Blabberize.com looks like a site that is perfect for younger students. It would be fun to do animal reports in our non-fiction writing unit and then covert those reports into animated blabberize reports. Check it out! Chris and Deb thank you for your patience when we get stuck and for the wonderful examples and ideas.

Wrap Up

If people learn best by doing, we learned a lot. Visual representation is often overlooked in education, but its importance is immeasurable. Although I would like the last month of the summer to drag on, I can't wait to use the multimedia lessons I've learned and to teach many of them to my students. Thanks for a great experience.

Greg

Happy Friday

Good morning! Thanks to everyone for a really good week. I have a lot of ideas for the upcoming year. I hope our technology and IT department at school are compatible with the programs we've learned.

I, too, am looking forward to checking things off today. Hopefully I can find everything!

Thanks to Deb and Chris and to everyone for their help!

Last Blog number 5

Yesterday was a day of days only to be reflected on by the help of a couple of glasses of wine. Unfortunately, I did not partake in that nightly ritual of a good Shiraz or dry red fruity wine served at or around 65 degrees.
After working with movie maker two/three I would not use this in my classroom or as a personal movie editing program. The search is on for a stronger more forgiving program.

Thank you for your continued patience and unyeilding support.

Dan Hertel