Glogster Problem

Today, we worked on our Glogs in first period. The Glogs looks great, and they have great information on them. My students have been very creative in the design of their Glogs. They seem to know much more then I do about working with this tool. Today, however, Glogster unexpectedly quit and would not save their work from this morning. This was very frustrating because it was supposed to be our last day in the computer lab working on this project, and many of the students had finished. Most of them lost quite a bit of their work this morning, when Glogster stopped working. I put an email into Glogster, so we will have to see what they say.

Week 4 Edublog Update

My science students completed their week 4 science tables last Thursday. It's interesting to see that many of them are catching on to the weekly Edublog updates. Very few students are still trying to catch up from previous weeks. I'm really enjoying this unit because they are able to communicate with one another outside of class via their email or blogs, and they can complete these assignments at home if they aren't in school. The week 5 edublog updates will be this week. I think that this is the last week that they will blog on the fifth state they are traveling through.

Day 1 in the lab for Glogster

My students are each creating glogster accounts and posters. They found the information on my santorosciencerocks website, and they also were given a hard copy. The directions and a rubric telling how their glogs should look, and what information needs to be shown. There is a youtube video they watched first, and then they began creating their glogs. They continued to refer to the video as needed while working on their glog posters. This project has gone well so far, however, there was a problem saving some of their glogs. The students were instructed to come up with 12 Earth systems vocabulary words, and define 6 of them. Then, they had to link pictures to their vocabulary. For some reason, the glogs wouldn't all save. The students had to either minimize the window, and try again, or log out and start all over again. We will see how tomorrow goes.

Glogster

I am in the process of setting up Glogster accounts for my students. We are approaching the end the Earth Systems unit, and the students will need to make a Glog web page to illustrate specific vocabulary from the unit. I have found that Glogster is a very self explanatory program, that I think will work as a very successful evaluation tool for this unit. I'm looking forward to starting this project next week.

See the USA Week 2

Last Friday, we posted our week 2 blogs for our "See the USA" project. The students moved to the second state that they are traveling through for their road trip. They were instructed to go to my website: santorosciencerocks.pbworks.com to get the information for their state. I emailed them the science table that they used to complete their week 2 blog entries. Each team has a team Gmail account, which makes communication between the teacher and teams, very easy.
I am noticing, they the students are getting more familiar with blogging, but I still have a lot of practice to do until it's smooth.

Technology Unit

For E2T2 I will be doing the "See the USA" project for my technology unit. As a team, we are taking on certain parts of this unit. For science, students will blog each week throughout their travels around the United States. They will have a different requirement each week for their blogs. Students created team blogs on edublog, and they will individually post their responses to the requirements on my pbworks web page. For this project, not only am I intending to get my students familiar with blogging, I also would like them to become more comfortable with navigating important internet resources. On my pbworks web page, they have to click on specific websites to get information required for each week. Students have many resources to use for this project, and I'm excited to see how this project progresses after break.

Blogging in Science

The last week before break, we started our sixth grade team project called, "See the USA." For this project, student have to individually blog about what they see along their travels across the United States. For the first week of their travels, they had to blog about what scientific sites they saw, and how weathering and erosion have affected these land marks. I have a website called . There, the students find requirements for blogging each week for science. It worked out pretty well getting them familiar with the blogs, and I'm hoping that the more I practice with them, the faster it will go.