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Sites I have recently tagged in my delicious account:

• Math Snacks: short videos by some elementary teachers demonstrating various math principles
• Betchablog: Getting Kids to Blog: a post about starting students blogging. It has a great chart on blogging prompts that incorporates science and social studies threads with Bloom’s taxonomy.
• Tag Galaxy: Type in a word for a photo you want to find, and watch the galaxy form. The sun links to the Flickr photos with your tag. (Click to view them). Related tags show up as planets revolving around the sun. (Click on to further refine your search.) This is not your typical display of photo search results.  Just try it. This Flickr mashup is a diploma thesis project by Steven Wood.
• Flowgram: Create presentations by combining web pages, photos, PowerPoint and more. Include your voice, notes, and highlight text. Surprisingly, viewers of the presentation can interact with displayed webpages by scrolling and clicking on links. Like a screencast, but different. ;>) Check out this flowgram: 21st Century Information Literacy Skills. I will be trying this out soon. In fact, I could have made a flowgram instead of writing this blog post.
• Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas: Looks like an empty page, but wait, move your mouse across the screen, try a click.

The Shape of Things

Registration is open for the new The Shape of Things online project by Jennifer Wagner.

• Dates: April 14 to May 12, 2008 (final project due May 12th)
• Grades: PreK – 6
• Description: Based on the use of triangles, circles, and squares, students will create one project (see the 3 options below) and then upload their images to a class photo album at one of the suggested online photo storage locations. Worksheets and suggested activities are included.

1. Students will create a collage or piece of art using ONLY triangles, circles, and squares. The shapes may be of any size, and use any type of material (paper, felt, plastic, jello, etc) The artwork/collage may also be 3-D. Pictures will be taken of completed artwork and uploaded to the online photo storage location.
2. Students will use digital camera and search their classroom, school, city/town, home for pictures that include triangles, circles, or squares. Pictures will be transferred to online photo storage location.
3. Students will use an graphics program (kid pix, paint shop pro, photoshop, kerpoof, etc) and create a Triangle, Circle, Square piece of artwork. Teachers/students will then upload the images to online photo storage location.

tag: online project, collaboration, edtech, k12, math, art, shapes, photos, graphic, The Shape of Things, Jennifer Wagner

Doodle for Google

Students (ages 5-18) in the United States have been invited to design a Google logo.

The Doodle 4 Google theme is “What if…?” Students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas.

• What if…I could live underwater, or in outer space, or in Colonial America?
• What if…I could see into the future?
• What if…I could build any kind of invention I wanted?

1. 40 finalists will be invited to a workshop with Google’s official doodler, Dennis Hwang, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.
2. The U.S. public will vote for their favorites.
3. The winning design will replace the regular Google homepage on May 22, 2008. This champion doodler will receive a $10,000 college scholarship and his or her school will receive a $25,000 technology grant.

• School registration closes on March 28th.
• Entries must be received by April 12th, 2008.
• Visit Doodle 4 Google to register. Here you will find all the details of the competition, plus detailed lesson plans.

tag: Google Doodle 4 Google contest art log What if? prizes