BO or AO Skyper?

Mr. Cosand’s 5th grade class in Oregon recently used  Skype to interview the author Mike Artell. Mr. Artell also conducted some drawing lessons with the students during his virtual visit. Watch this 6 minutes YouTube video to see the highlights.

There’s a new version of Skype available, so I’ll be updating my workshop materials in time for my summer training.

I am a BO Skyper, (before Oprah). How about you?

The Places We Will Go

• Online Collaborative Project: The Places We Will Go
• Grades: PreK-6th
• Dates: April 13-May 8
• Registration is open.
• Description: JenuineTech is offering a great collaborative project this month that has students using Google Earth to locate a variety of landmarks around the world, and calculating the distance of these from their school.  Don’t let the Google Earth requirement intimidate you.  Jen provides a file that when opened in Google Earth has the landmarks tagged. She includes a tutorial on how to placemark your school and  use the ruler tool to measure the distances. Also, I am happy to help you in any way.

Image Credit: Last day in Paris by danorbit CC Licensed Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike

St. Patrick’s Day Project

• Online Collaborative Project:  St. Patrick’s Day
  
• Grades: PreK-3
• Project Dates: March 16-20
• Registration Opened:  Feb 19
• Description: Using a box of Lucky Charms cereal, classes will try to prove that there are more green clovers (hats) than any other shape. Students will count the charms and submit a final class count and graph.

This project by Jenuinetech also provides several worksheets, resource links, and additional suggested activities.

Image Credit: Not me Lucky Charms! by subtle devices licensed CC Attribution, Noncommerical, No Derivative Works