Please go to this Blendspace to learn more about the apps you think you know and love. Take the quiz and see how much you actually remembered!
Assignment: Use the Symbaloo on the home page of the catalog to find a creation site and make a product that passes on some of the knowledge you now have about apps, both good and bad. Big Huge Labs, Smore, Wordle are good places to start. You don't have to finish today.
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:
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
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.
Blogmeister is undergoing temporary construction and the blog is frozen. We will return when it's fixed, but meanwhile:
NEW: Glogster is running a "Thousand Dollar Contest". From now until Midnight December 16th you can create a glog on any topic that interests you. You must use the new templates as the Classic Template is being phased out. Use as many Glogster functions as you can, such as inserting a film of you speaking or reading something from your glog. Photos, artwork, attachments, but most of all thoughtful well planned work will increase you chances of winning tremendously~so plan! New students, I need you to think of a new glog name, and look on with someone else. Maybe a friend can teach you how glogs work...take a look at two projects we've done under "wikis" on the home page of the catalog.
FUN:Ever read a Newbery Award Winner? Want to create an I-Movie? Lucky you! We can either do this as a class, or you can do this with family adn friends. Do what, you ask? Create a 90 second Newbery film. If you/we win you will be sitting in New Yok City at the annual 90 Second Newbery film festival. Click on the 90 second link to see videos, and all pertinent info.
FUN AND NEW:Want to learn to code? See your results instantly? Test drive this, I haven't even had a chance to mess around with it. Tell me what you think. Try the Code Monster at Mozilla.
If none of the above appeals, go to Cool Tools on the wiki. Or best of all, read a book.
