Twitter

Our cohort group had our TweetUP yesterday! Twitter is a great way to share educational ideas, and to connect with smart people all over the world!! What a great way to collaborate and bounce great ideas off of one another to bring wonderful and engaging experiences to our classroom! It always amazes me how much technology, resources and information is out there developing every day!  Happy Twittering.

Ghosts and Hosts of the White House At Halloween!

I found a very cool video about the history of the White House! Just in time for Halloween!

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_shows/holidays_halloween/whha_spirit.swf

Gotta Love Prezi!!!!! You Have Got To Click On This Link!!

Prezi is an awesome Web 2.0 tool for creating amazing, fun and interactive presentations for your classroom, business, or event!! You Have got to check this out!

http://prezi.com/mfvrfa4m4xqz/alliteration-rhythm-and-rhyme/

Curriculum Project

Here is my Curriculum Project on an Alliteration Poetry Unit Study! It includes Prezi, Symbaloo, Web 2.0 technology tools!!  Learn about tongue twisters using many different Web 2.0 technology tools!!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XJQZ-5u3IOJk_DckptBOM_MOwUpij1KY4pJ-pG4njG8/edit

Music Centers & Exploring Our Class Blog

Students have been exploring our blog site and writing their thoughts, and what they like best about the site. They will add ideas and make suggestions for how to update and improve our music website. We have received positive feedback from kids, which will be posted in the up-coming weeks. Students have been busy at their music centers, including Candyland Rhythms, Music Pictionary, Instrumental Bingo, Singing Centers, Instrument Playing Centers (drums and glockenspiel), Composers Go Fish, Dominotes, Dino Rhythms, Tone bell sol, mi, la game, Instrument Riddles, and discovering our Blog Site.

Survey, Poll & Web 2.0 Icon

Don't forget to take the survey on this page, and answer questions like,"What was your favorite visit like from a former student? Also, take the music styles/genres poll which has a few more days left to enter. You will find it at the bottom right corner of this blog page, and the Web 2.0 technology tools icon is on the bottom left on this page... click the icon!

Blogging In Our Classroom!

I am amazed and even a little overwhelmed on how much information there is out there, and with the wealth of technological devices that exist for the quality of education for our students! How lucky our 21st Century kids are to have so many doors of opportunity to open and explore.  Our blogger site can take so many directions, and can touch so many places for these young learners.  It is just endless...