I followed Marina, Mayerly, Kathryn, and Casey this week, along with http://www.assortedstuff.com/top101/. The authors of each of these blogs, have come up with some great ideas to use in the classroom. I looked at Marina's Book Wizard link to figure out what level a book was, and find similar books that a student would be interested in. Mayerly commented on how the information we find is built on the information that others find. We need to focus on helping our students understand what we want to convey, and make it easy for them to understand. Kathryn's story weaves information she read off of others' pages, supporting Mayerly's point again. The way she presented it, hooked the viewer in, making it an informative and entertaining read. After watching the entertaining youtube video linked on Casey's page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo I understood copyright better, and had an idea. What if students were able to create short clips like this to explain their own topic. In case you don't watch it, this video shows bits of Disney movies to create a different story (kind of like Optimus Prime using the radio to communicate). Anyways, I think that would be exciting for the students, and could also be presented to other classes, or parents. :)
http://www.storyplace.org/ has a similar format, in the way that it is has cartoons telling a story. This is one of the many links on my blog site, and I was pleased to say that it has an Early Ed focus as well as Elementary Ed focus. The video I watched was teaching about fire fighters and even had a sing along song.
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