Welcome! This blog is an experiment for my students and me. Here we will write for the purpose of sharing our ideas as they pertain to what we read and how we live.
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A class at Arvada High School is taking on a positive change blogging project to write about issues that are important to students. Like us, their class is using a Wikispaces wiki to coordinate their work. Take some time to read their blogs. You are welcome to leave comments.
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Article posted February 21, 2008 at 08:44 AM GMT0 •
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If you need some help organizing your final essay on The Call of the Wild, or if you are just interested in brainstorming tools, give Bubbl.us shot. Bubbl.us is a free web application that lets you map out your ideas and share them.
Here is one example of how you might use this tool to organize a paragraph. Thank you Graham and Alyson for working on this.
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Article posted February 11, 2008 at 06:38 PM GMT0 •
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In response to reading The Call of the Wild, each of you is required to design a board game or to write and illustrate a children's book. I would like to propose a technological collaborative writing option to the children's book.
You may work in groups of up to three people to create a twenty-page, illustrated story book with The Call of the Wild elements as per the original directions. Your group's task is to turn this story into a VoiceThread. You and your group will have to work together to figure out how to use VoiceThread, which has clear user directions.
Watch the following VoiceThread presentation and decide if you would like to try this kind of web 2.0 tool.
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Article posted January 19, 2008 at 04:02 PM GMT0 •
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You will receive a grade for this assignment!
In preparation for reading The Call of the Wild, take thirty minutes to peruse the following links about the Klondike gold rush of the late 19th century and early 20th century. In the comment box below, write a brief reflection of at least five sentences about what you've learned.
Here are some of the titles for the book reviews you have written. Everyone should create a blog post for at least one of the three book reviews due on Tuesday with your author study.
Article posted January 16, 2008 at 05:33 AM GMT0 •
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You may have heard of Cabbage Patch dolls, but have you ever heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Read this Denver Post editorial titled The Plastics Paradox: We're drowning in an ocean of garbage, and leave a comment about what you think.
Visit the following websites to learn more about plastics and recycling:
