Comments4Kids Week 12 & 13

In week 12 comments 4 kids assignment I was assigned to the Team One Rock Stars and to Shyla. Shyla posteds a picture she drew and a story she dictated to her teacher, in which she explained the picture. I thought she looked cute with her pigtails and her blue, blue sky.
In week 13 comments 4 kids I was assigned comment on Lorenzo’s story about his kayaking trip. His story was cute. I like he got back into the kayak after he had fallen out. I told he I hope I am as brave as him if I get to go kayaking one day.

Comments4Kids Week 10

Eric a student in Ms. Kolbert's class shared an article about the jellyfish species called turritopsis nutricula, also known as the immortal jellyfish. Yes, it is really immortal. It can regenerate back to its polyp stage, and can start asexual reproduction all over again. If this jellyfish wasn't so tiny, about the size of a pinkie finger nail, my over active imagination would be in envisioning jellyfish taking over the world. After reading the article Eric shared I headed over to youtube and found a lot of videos about this jellyfish. Below you will find my favorite video out of the ones I found. If you want to read the article I have include a link to it as well. Jellyfish Article

Comments4Kids Week 9

My comments for kids week nine assignment was a post for class by teacher site, Mr. McClung's World. The post I was assigned to read was Cold War Kids, which turned out to be a indie band. The band was Mr. McClung's choice for his band of the week. The band used blogs and social networks to promote their music. The band is a good example of how much easier it is for musicians today to promote themselves and their music using technology.

Commets4Teachers Cycle Two

Ms. She only has two post since January; the two post are a summary of what she learned in 2009 by using twitter. So, I went back to her 2009 posts to see what else she had to say. In her post from July 2009 she mentions Seth Godin , a successful author and marketing guru. She had embedded a video with him addressing the issue of social networking. I am including it here for you guys to watch, since I think he makes a good point. I went to you tube and watched a few more of his videos, he is an interesting guy. Jenny She really likes twitter. Just about everything else she posted was dealing with twitter. I did take a look at her class site,Little Voices, Little Scholars, in which showcases her students work. I was impressed with it. Her blog, Jenny's Learning Journal on the other hand wasn't what I expected after reviewing Ms. Carnevale's site in the last comments4teachers cycle. I guess I was expecting more post on a broad range of topics. I think that Ms. She has done a great job in developing her social networking skills, which is something that I have trouble with. She has done a great job in incorporating technology into her classroom.

The second post that I read from Ms. Carnevale was on 02/24/10. This posting was what she calls Website Wednesday. She listed five different sited on this posting. The first was a site called Schoolhouse Rock, I loved this site, it was old school music videos on just about every topic you would need in teaching elementary students. They list the lyrics for you so you can teach them to your students. The next site she mention was Harvey's Homepage. This site is for all you math lovers. This site offers a variety of different math lessons for teacher to download.
The next site was my favorite The Science Zone. The Science Zone offer interactive science activities and games for students. It offers a wide range of topics. This next site is for all the book lovers. The site is called 180 Alternatives to Book Reports and it gives some creative ways to get the students to show what they read. Last but not least she tells us about Magic Studios. Magic Studios is a Free website that allows to create interactive websites for your students, without knowing any special programming skills. You can make online quizzes that provide feedback when the correct or incorrect answer is selected. It even offers a library that you can browse to view a variety of resources others have created.

The third post I read was posted on March 5th and was entitled Tech Stars. Ms. Carnevale setup a wiki project that included third graders, fourth graders and fifth graders from across the country to collaborate on writing and illustrating a story. She had enough class who signed up to participate in the project she divided them into two groups. The goal behind the project was to have the students improve their writing skills while utlizing twenty-frist century technology. A side beifit is the students get to learn about new regions by reading about the areas where each partictate class is located, each class got it's own wiki page where they described their home city. The stories are very cute, the students are doing a great job. If you want to check the stories out I has included the links below.
Write On Intro

Group One Story Group Two Story

I really like this site, Ms. Carnevale does an excellent job of helping the teachers and the student in her area to use technology in the classroom and with is blog she is also helping teachers across the world as well. I know I already commented on three of her post, but I wanted to mention something she posted on 3/15/2010. She entitled it Can you wipe your feet online? she reminds everyone that anytime you put anything online it stays there, and anyone can google you and fine it. She brought up a good point in that more and more employers are googling applicants before hiring them to see how they are presenting them selves to others online. She shares a cute video, you can watch it below. Thank You, Ms. Carnevale for sharing.