Lorraine's Blog – May 2008 Archive (3)

Transat Artemis

We're tracking the sailors as they approach Boston!

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Book: http://www.thetransat.com/60/solo/uk/

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Added by Lorraine on May 23, 2008 at 5:30am — No Comments

Thanks to Classroom 2.0, I added Voicethread to my list of options in creating Mother's Day greetings this year. Students drew an image in Kid Pix, saved it as a jpeg and put it into the shared folder. Then we put the images into voicethread and each child recorded a mother's day greeting. Mothers were given the URL to the voicethread and invited to comment on their child's work. To include a sample of the… Continue

Added by Lorraine on May 10, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Guangxi University of Technology Students Meet Skipper Rich Wilson

Last summer I introduced Skipper Rich Wilson to teachers who I had befriended on his earlier voyages. In this webcast I introduced him to students in Guangxi University of Technology in Liuzhou, China. There is a slight delay after the intro and then the students begin speaking. Interview Steve Hargadon interviewed Rich Wilson in the Live Conversations available in the videos section of Classroom 2.0. To see a video of the… Continue

Added by Lorraine on May 4, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments