Ideas

Links & ideas & technology needs:

Blog ideas:
personal interests a place where students can input information about books class novel projects

Tech needs:
www.blogspot.com (free) www.wordpress.com (free) www.kidblog.com (free) Internet access []

Wiki ideas:
character study biography vocabulary research cooperative learning projects

Tech needs:
www.wikispaces.com (free) Internet access []

Podcasts:
introductions (to unit of study, to each other, to the teacher, etc) review content teach content book talks/reviews communication with community parent communication

Tech needs:
Internet access [|http://audacity.sourceforge.net/] (download to use on your computer- to record audio) digital microphone (or the built in microphone in a laptop) []