Future_Projects

I have a great idea! Add your great ideas for online global exchanges between our classes on this page! Just click on the Edit button next to the pencil and add your thoughts at the top of the page. Please be very carefull not to delete or alter any previous messages. If you do by accident, let us know and we can do a restore! Be sure to put your name either at the beginning or end of your idea!


 * March 7th - from Vera -** Last week we celebrated "World Book Day" with a number of activities including one which our Years 10 & 11 enjoyed - "Speed Dating Authors". Students were brought to the library by their English teachers and arranged into groups of 5 or 6 around tables. Each student was given a random novel plus a guide sheet for discussion. They were given 10 minutes to read and then stop. In their groups, each member in turn, told the others about the novel (Author, title, genre, characters, plot so far,male or female interest, recommend or not & star rating). If time allowed, groups swapped tables and started again. A number of students borrowed novels that would not normally appeal to them looking at the cover! **//From Diann - How could we adapt this to an online idea? I think it is great!//**


 * March 5th** - From __Scott__ - See, this is what Teacher-To-Teacher should be all about - sharing ideas that could eventually turn into collaborative activities with and for the students. What a great variety of ideas!! Local heroes is a super idea __Emma__ - it could be the local hero everyone reads about in a history book, it could be the sports player that scores the winning goal, or possibly the quiet hero - you know who I'm talking about, the teacher who listens to a student when no one else will (that kind of hero stays in a student's heart); and Voki - well, I'm proud of myself that I could create an image without anyone's help (my hair really isn't that white - it's more of a distinguished silver) - __Paula__, what a neat and creative idea; __Louise__, what a logical idea sharing information about where we live - but, of course...brilliant! When I was teaching Civics & Economics (remember, I just retired in June 2010), I always used geography to help the students add another dimension of meaning and understanding to what they were studying and it really worked - it added character, substance and depth to a concept; and finally, an international book club! Wow, __Diann__! Might I suggest two - //**The Worst Hard Time**// (ISBN-13: 978-0-618-34697-4) by Timothy Egan (a story about surviving the Great American Dust Bowl) and //**Call My Brother Back**// (ISBN 0-85640-746-1) by Michael McLaverty (a story of brothers growing up in 1918 Rathlin Island and Belfast). Remember, there is a whole new world in every book. And now my humble idea - compare and contrast the similarities and differences of sport games, yours and ours, i.e., football and football - I think the kids would really like that and the adults might learn a thing or two also. OK, that's enough. See ya later.


 * March 2** - From Diann - What about an international book club? Both classes read the same book, then have discussions about it.


 * March 1** - From Louise - I think that we should find out a bit about where we live..... i dont know very much about Virginia and would like to find out about the local area, famous people, tourist attractions, local aritsts etc......As a geography teacher this would be of interest to me and my classes.

I am building on an idea from Paula. I think it would be fun if we all created Vokis of ourselves. While we can't paste the code into the wiki, if you email the code to me, I can insert it into my blog at [] Paula was the first, then I added my own. Go to [|http://www.voki.com] and have a little fun, then email me at diann.caviness@vbschools.com the code.
 * February 23, 2011**

From Emma - have the students create projects about local heroes, then share with each other!
 * February 24, 2011**