It was a multi-tasking, task-switching kind of week

from Idleberry’s Photostream on Flickr
(copyright used with permission of artist)

First, I skipped work for a field trip with Leroy’s class on Tuesday (click for slideshow):

Okay, back to work…

Links for Third Grade: VoiceThread This is a Voice Thread that I’ve done for the third grade Money unit in Open Court. Rather than doing the Concept Quesiton board (KWL in Open Court), I put up pictures with audio prompts, and have students leave comments. I’m currently supervising the commenting, to both monitor and introduce the interface.

Assignment #23: A new unit about a new nation — Fifth Grade Blog Here is the VoiceThread that I’m doing for the fifth grade Making a New Nation unit in Open Court.

Next, on Diigo, I set up a grade level account, and had student highlighting and summarizing, here are some examples:

Medical Transportation Methods

This is a diagram of a train car that was converted from passenger operation to carry wounded soldiers to a large general hospital in a large city.

• Jennifer They carry soidiers to the hospital. – post by orefourth2007

The Human Heart: An Online Exploration from The Franklin Institute, made possible by Unisys Annotated

• cristina It says that when you are born your heart starts puping you breth but when you die it stops puping. – post by orefourth2007

I’ve updated the family site with pics if you’re interested.