Would you like your students to have the opportunity of joining in with a fun, collaborative international project to help create readers? Have a look at Technospud Projects.
The current project is Salute to Suess.
This wiki came second in the category of Best Educational Wiki in last week's edublog awards.
The “SALUTE TO SEUSS” wiki is an online project for primary teachers to use within their classroom. Each teacher is encouraged to showcase their students’ participation on the web, with a slideshow, wiki, blog, photoshare, podcast, or other tool. There are 214 teachers from 45 U.S. States, 3 Canadian Provinces, and New Zealand participating. 2007 is the 50th Anniversary of the writing of “The Cat In The Hat” written by Dr. Seuss. To celebrate this milestone, this project also has many websites to visit, worksheets, standards, and activities to expand the project even more as the teacher wishes.
The worksheets, resources and weblinks themselves are amazing, and can be used free by anyone. Its also great to see Kiwi participation: see Puahue School powerpoint presentations.
A similar project took place earlier in the year about Charlotte's Web. The site contains some great ideas of activities for the book, as well as the contributions made by each participating school.
And coming up next year, will be a collaborative project on Prince Caspian. With the great interest in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the Prince Caspian movie, filmed in New Zealand, and due out next year, this could be a wonderful opportunity to create readers using the web, in collaboration with classes around the world. Interested? Look at the Technospud calendar here, then click the link to join their mailing list.
We at Create Readers would love to hear about your Prince Caspian project!
See also last week's post about the Kiwi school which was also a finalist in these awards. Allanah's Appleby Showcase came second in its category of best educational use of audio. Congratulations Allanah and your clever students!
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
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This is a very good book if you love adventure stories. I have read this book three times. Twice with school and once on my own. There are suprises around every corner. I recommend it to everyone who enjoys adventure stories.
it is a great and intresting classic
Mr Jones is our English teacher and he looooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss the lion the witch and the wardrobe. We had to read it for English.
This book is really awesome!!!
its really interesting story.
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