Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Up Too Late


I couldn't sleep the other night because my mind was going a mile a minute. I really appreciate my sleep, so that was a bummer. But I came up for a new project idea and I think I'll try it with second graders. The plan is to read the Diary of a... books by Doreen Cronin, develop some information literacy skills by researching flies, spiders, worms, lalala, and then create our own Diary of a something. Simple enough. (Sort of.)

Then, once we've finished the text and illustrations for the book, OF COURSE we will upload to VoiceThread and narrate the text!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

BrainQuest

I started doing a daily trivia question on our school's morning news and have been working on preparing a database of questions to pull from. I've been getting a lot of great questions from the one pack of BrainQuest cards that I dug up, and I started thinking about how sad it is that BrainQuest doesn't do more online. They have a few great printables and games, but nothing compared to the sheer number of questions they must have created for kids after all these years -- I want them to share more! It would be a perfect site to provide a question-a-day RSS subscription, for instance. So BrainQuest, if you're reading...I've got some pointers!