Thursday, December 11, 2014
Blendspace for Flipped Learning
Hi all, while I'm out today, please use this Blendspace Symbaloo Tutorial - it has a cool new trick for you Symbalooers!
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Archiving - Let's start to think about it....
Hi Fabulous 6th graders,
We need to start thinking about what we want to archive, and making a list (copying the URL, otherwise known as the address, e.g., www.google.com) on a word document. Call it Archive.
There's so much cool stuff out there it's hard to think what you'd save! Like Heather's Animations or BestAnimations.com
or games....and what kind of games?
And sites you find yourself using all the time? Like I have favorite movie review or book sites
And photos, cartoons, and commercials...there's so much it's hard to grasp.
Please spend today thinking, searching, and copying URLs and pasting them into a word document.
We'll share out next week. Meanwhile let's think about why it's important to save that piece of our history. Here's two examples for you to think about:, from the Internet Archive, where your work will be saved as well:
Folger's Coffee Commercial 1960's (web address just in case - you can paste in browser: https://archive.org/details/FolgersCoffe_2 ) and a 1948 Jello commercial.
Please consider, do you think a commercials like these could be shown today? What do they say about society at a certain time? Would they offend you? Do they need a Reality Check? Values Check? Stereotype Check? Sexism Check? What was accepted once - why is it not okay now?
Was the spoon a "Western Invention?"Think about that!
Please respond by commenting below. And then check out the giant Symbaloo on the home page of the catalog. I'm looking forward to reading your reactions.
We need to start thinking about what we want to archive, and making a list (copying the URL, otherwise known as the address, e.g., www.google.com) on a word document. Call it Archive.
There's so much cool stuff out there it's hard to think what you'd save! Like Heather's Animations or BestAnimations.com
or games....and what kind of games?
And sites you find yourself using all the time? Like I have favorite movie review or book sites
And photos, cartoons, and commercials...there's so much it's hard to grasp.
Please spend today thinking, searching, and copying URLs and pasting them into a word document.
We'll share out next week. Meanwhile let's think about why it's important to save that piece of our history. Here's two examples for you to think about:, from the Internet Archive, where your work will be saved as well:
Please consider, do you think a commercials like these could be shown today? What do they say about society at a certain time? Would they offend you? Do they need a Reality Check? Values Check? Stereotype Check? Sexism Check? What was accepted once - why is it not okay now?
Was the spoon a "Western Invention?"Think about that!
Please respond by commenting below. And then check out the giant Symbaloo on the home page of the catalog. I'm looking forward to reading your reactions.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Hi wonderful fifth graders!! You have been doing an excellent job on Padlet. I want you to add your 'How To" projects to our padlet page at
First think of something you could possibly demonstrate - like "How To give your dog a bath" wouldn't work because it would need to be something you could show at school. So think about something you could really do, like make a can tab bracelet, or how to fold a napkin to look like a swan. Take a look at what your fellow students did by going to padlet.com/rockthelab/howto. They either wrote the instructions for their "how to" on the padlet or they posted a video by opening a new window, finding an instructional video, copying the address (at the top, like this address is blogger.com/blah blah blah - not really but you get the idea) and then pasting it into the link symbol and clicking ADD. You can add an image the same way. I made a video to help you with this but if you have any trouble just write the instructions instead. I don't know if this will be blocked or not...
Maybe if you paste this address into the browser you can see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrFdMKKTSiQ
and I will try to put it into the padlet as well.
Have a great weekend!
padlet.com/rockthelab/howto
First think of something you could possibly demonstrate - like "How To give your dog a bath" wouldn't work because it would need to be something you could show at school. So think about something you could really do, like make a can tab bracelet, or how to fold a napkin to look like a swan. Take a look at what your fellow students did by going to padlet.com/rockthelab/howto. They either wrote the instructions for their "how to" on the padlet or they posted a video by opening a new window, finding an instructional video, copying the address (at the top, like this address is blogger.com/blah blah blah - not really but you get the idea) and then pasting it into the link symbol and clicking ADD. You can add an image the same way. I made a video to help you with this but if you have any trouble just write the instructions instead. I don't know if this will be blocked or not...
Maybe if you paste this address into the browser you can see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrFdMKKTSiQ
and I will try to put it into the padlet as well.
Have a great weekend!
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