Things I wanted to try and didn’t get time for!
Super Hero Sports Cards- My Junior High Boys are all about Sports so I wanted them to make Sport Stat Cards with a twist. Not only Teams they played on Location by Lattitude3 and Longitude, Graph of their win/ loss records, Awards Predictions… incorporating as many skills as I could dream up.
Where in the world is Flat Stanley- Wanted to send a virtual flat Stanley by email and each week have clues send until the kids figure out where Stanley is. Search on Google Earth. Thought it could be like a geographical scavenger hunt.
Wiki Word Wall Ben’s great ideas of having a wiki where kids get to add the words to a site and collaborate. This was a great project idea I just never got to.
Digital Yearbook My thought was since I was spending so many hours, days, weeks, and months on the darn yearbook I could save each page as a pdf file and post on my wiki. This DID NOT happen because the parents decided no one would BUY the yearbook if they could see the parts they wanted free. Have to think of a way of getting out of doing the yearbook next year. Even though the kids help- it end up becoming a very teacher intensive, boring, and time consuming project. The rest of the teachers run for the hills at the mere mention of yearbook. I am still trying to figure out how I got stuck with it.
Virtual World verses Real World- I wanted to have the man a Lemonade stand in school for 2 weeks and graph their results. Then play the virtual lemonade stand and compare and contrast the learning between the simulation game and the reality.
Voice Thread I thought a wonderful play on words would be to have the kids design and print a quilt square about themselves, ( There really is printable Fabric.) and use Voice Thread to tell about the quilting process.
Making Bloom Taxonomy Bloom I have this crazy idea of collecting student projects that demonstrate the levels of Blooms and putting it all together in a blooming video
News This was going to be the year I tried uStream – Hooked up a camcorder to a computer that was connected to the Internet and had the students do an instant Live Video broadcast. But- I was moved to a new building no camcorder and needed to play catch up on their skills levels- Next year for sure!!
Mediascapes A mediascape blends digital images, video, audio and interactions with the physical landscape. Students download a mediascape onto a portable device, and see how your landscape comes alive as you move through the environment . I wanted to do a historical walk through our city-this project lacked one major thing—Money. I needed to be able to buy some players. Basically, I could have used any mscape player that ran on a device with Windows Mobile 2003 second edition or newer and GPS and a touchscreen. I know ,I know …write a grant—but this past year I wrote the Mother of all grants for Chrysler-3,000 words, cited referenced ect…and nothing-not even a rejection email. I spent many, many hours writing that grant and with the pace of my life I have to determine if I can really give up that much time for no return.
Since summer is coming and I don’t want to forget any of these I decided t post them here where I can add other ideas I come up with summer or during the Michigan Champions Training!
I wanted to make ISPY books with kids creating colleges of digital pictures
