Ruth’s Ruckus2

I am forever getting great stuff from folks in my PLN.  Two websites that I was introduced to recently are interesting:  This first one – Kidblog looks promising and will need to be sanctioned by OITMS before anyone uses it.  The premise is the same as classblogmeister – simple safe blogging for students. Instructional blogging – like writing prompts, journal entries and literature circles.  The interface of the Kidblog platform is clean, slick and updated.  I haven’t played with it at all to see if it has the same features as the blogmeister.  We’ll have to see…

The other site is  Carrotsticks.com – it’s a math game.  It’s very cute and just for practice in basic math facts.  The only part that is free is the addition part, but I played and had fun.  “competed with two other kids” and even had a progress report and achievement certificate sent to “my parents” email address.  I think there may be some real use for this in a classroom setting.

I was thinking about doing a series of posts about Christmas.  You know technology integrated sites or something.  I had almost given up on the idea, when I saw this…

I actually got the link for this from my supervisor, Karen Streeter.  It’s a fun exercise…I could think of several ways to use it in a classroom:

• Writing prompt
• animal adaptations
• voicethread prompt

Anyway, here’s my wild self…you can give it a try at http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

This summer I’ll be checking out some Web 2.0 applications (and anything else fun that I run across)  and reporting back…I got this one from Jeff Johnson aka TechNorth

Get Your Cyborg Name

Get Your Cyborg Name