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Time for kids Article-Extending School: How do you feel?
Article posted November 26, 2007 at 01:33 PM GMT0 •
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OK fifth graders, let’s get into blogging!!! Today you are going to review an article on Time For Kids which is a GREAT website for elementary students. Time For Kids always has important world news on politics and recent events as well as news about science inventions and discoveries and entertainment news and funny facts.
First I would like you to find the article about a school which has made the school day 2 hours longer. This is happening to many schools in the states. Read about the program and then write a blog entry about what you think? What are the advantages and what are the disadvantages? Choose a side and argue your point.
To get to the article….
Click on the link for time for kids-More Time for School in the upper right corner of this blog page under the "Related Links" section.
After you are done, feel free to look around Time For Kids and read some more articles
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Article posted November 26, 2007 at 01:33 PM GMT0 •
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Welcome to 5th Grade Blogging
Article posted October 2, 2007 at 07:31 PM GMT0 •
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WELCOME
Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. Whis will be the beginning of a great year - learning and connecting with one another over the internet. Carol Morgan's 5th grade students will join other schools all over the world who are using the web in new interactive ways.
A blog is a web log or a journal that allows others to connect and comment on each other's writing and ideas. We will be using the new computers in our classrooms to write weekly journals and respond to one another. But it doesn't just stop there.... Besides journal entries we can read and discuss news articles, school happenings, Science and Social Studies links and even have guest speakers come in. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF US AS WE EMBARK ON THIS NEW JOURNEY.
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Article posted October 2, 2007 at 07:31 PM GMT0 •
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What do you think?
Article posted March 7, 2007 at 01:43 PM GMT0 •
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I want to open up today by getting your comments to a few questions I have about how you view technology in different aspects of your life. Certainly we use technology here at school and that is where I would like to focus the first questions.
-Do you feel like you have enough access to
technology here at school?
-Do you feel like you have opportunities to
access technology other than when you come
to my class?
-What are the things you have done with
technology here at CMS that have been your
favorite (doesn't need to be from this year)
-Describe any ideas you have for projects
using technology that you would like to see
me or your classroom teachers do.
The other part of this question then, is what is happening with you and technology outside of school. How are using technology in your daily, personal life? Tell me about your cell phone, taking pictures with it. Do you text message with friends? Do you make your own videos and post them to YouTube or Google Video? Tell me about your iPod. How do you use it? Music only or do you watch video on it? Where do you get the video you watch on it? You get the idea here. Tell me about using the internet, what sites do you like to visit. Do you have a computer in your room? Do your parents ever look at what you are viewing on the internet? Do they ask you about it? Again, you guys get the idea.
As you can see, basically I want to know it all, so tell me...I am excited to see what you come up with and what you can tell me.
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Article posted March 7, 2007 at 01:43 PM GMT0 •
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Flattening the Earth a Little More
Article posted February 9, 2007 at 05:26 PM GMT0 •
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I am pretty excited about a new project that we have started with a fourth grade class here at Carol Morgan School and a school in the metropolitan Detroit area. Our kids will be participating in a cultural exchange in the coming weeks. This project has already started with our kids here posting a blog for the kids in Michigan to view and post comments to. Hopefully this will generate dialogue between our students. The next step will be a videoconference between our two classes so kids get a chance to meet face to face in real time and ask/answer questions from each other. On December 23rd we will broadcast our Comparsas to their school in Michigan. Comparsas are traditional dances of the Dominican Republic that each classroom in the elementary has choreographed. This will be a wonderful opportunity for students in Michigan to view the largest cultural event that happens here at Carol Morgan School.
It is amazing to think that I can remember the first time I ever got on the internet, I think it was 1994 or something; I remember it like it was yesterday. I was amazed at it then and the power for communications that it holds for people around earth, continues to blow me away today. My hope is that the students here will see past the immediate observations of just seeing people in real time through videoconferencing, but will also see how technologies like this are changing the world in which they exist.
Stay tuned for more updates as they come…
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Article posted February 9, 2007 at 05:26 PM GMT0 •
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The new year and a new cycle
Article posted January 10, 2007 at 01:10 PM GMT0 •
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Happy New year and welcome back. I hope all of your vacations went well and Santa brought you everything you wished for.
We are just about to start a new cycle, cycle #13. This is our 3rd grade module and we will be researching blogs, what they are, what they do, why blogs are cool, why blogs will make you a better writer, and why blogging is so darn addictive.
I have set up an individual blog for each of you to use during this module. However, this blog is now yours and yours alone to edit to jot down your daily feelings, whatever it may be. The coolest part, you can update your blog from any connected computer anywhere in the world.
I'll see you, 3rd graders, on Tues. Jan 15th.
Until then....
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Article posted January 10, 2007 at 01:10 PM GMT0 •
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