Entries from March 2007

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Spring Has Sprung and still more March Madness

This time of the school year is marked by the traditional behaviors and aliments.  March Madness?  Must be.  It is time for teen aged students to start talking louder, jumping around, and fighting at the drop of a hat.  Girls and boys.  All the high school students want to talk about who is taking whom [...]

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Periodic Table of the Elements

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/periodictable/
This periodic table is really interesting in that the elements are hyperlinked to QTVR movies of samples.  My favorite is the gold element.  I downloaded the QTVR movie of a gold coin and showed it to my students on our digital projector.  This might be fun to use with an interactive whiteboard.  If the software [...]

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

EduBloggerCon Stuff

David Warlick posts an invite to participate from home and this is a great idea.  I will not be able to attend the event and hope to follow the conversations distantly.  Thanks Dave!
2 Cents Worth » EduBloggerCon Stuff — from home
I’ve set up a starter page on the EduBloggerCon wiki site, [...]

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

YouTube Fight Club – muy malo

“Doing it to Post on You Tube” « Haulin’ ‘Net
15 boys from Lee Senior HS in Sanford, NC were suspended and arrested for staging fighting events in the school lavatory prior to the school day. The 21st century kicker is that they were filming the fights and posting the New Media to You [...]

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

End of 4th Period: 06-07 School Year

This week marks the last week of the grading period. One of the Friday Seminar activities our middle school students have participated in has been a study of North Carolina animals. Students pulled names out of a hat to select an animal. The next step was for students to research their animal. [...]