Togetherville

The more I visit this site, the more I like it. I shared this site with several of my co-workers. They were pleased to know that there is a social network site for children. They liked the idea that they would be the administers on the site. Many of the students at my school have an illegal Facebook and MySpace account. When children are on a site like this, they are exposed to ideas that are not age appropriate. What I like about togetherville.com is that parents can filter everything. The children have to chose comments to put on others pages. This site will help children be responsible on social networks.

Alicia Keys

YouTube Comes to the Classroom

After reading this article, I realized that youtube is not just for entertaining. Teachers can build background knowledge using some of the various videos that are on the website. The author also gave tips about how to convert youtube videos into another format for use if it is banned in your school district. I shared this idea with several teachers and they were in awe. They did not know that you could convert the videos for classroom use. Since students enjoy looking at youtube on a daily basis, maybe teachers can assign videos for them to watch and discuss when the class meets again. Youtube is not going away so we might as use it for our benefits in the classroom.

Web Application/Webware Presentation

Talia and I are working hard on our presentation. We decided to evaluate the website http://togetherville.com/. This site is connected to Facebook. Talia and I wanted to know if this website is truly safe for children. We decided to join this site to conduct our research.

Social Media

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Hypertext Assignment

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
by
Mordecai Gerstein

Summary:
The book begins with a Street Performer in New York City who notices the twin towers and decides he wants to tie a wire between them. He and two friends take a string and an arrow and shoot it from one tower to the next. They Walk a reel of cable up the stairs and tie the rope to the cable. They let it drop and then tighten it. Philippe Petit spent an hour walking, dancing, and lying down on the wire above the city. He was arrested when he finally walked off the wire. The judge sentenced him to perform for children in the park as his punishment.
Here is a video of the news when this event took place August 7, 1974. There was a movie made based on the 2008 best documentary winner called Man on Wire. There is a book written by Colum McCann called Let the Great World Spin.

Wordle

There are numerous activities that you can do with Wordle. I would use this as an icebreaker activity on the first day of school. I would allow the students to interview each other and create a wordle based on the interview.