Lost Generation Video

My principal sent me this awesome video YouTube video posted by metroamv. It placed second in the AARP U@50 video contest. It is a very powerful message, but also opens up all kinds of ideas for writing!

No Future Left Behind

"This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project:

http://netgened.wikispaces.com

When kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked to talk about education and their future, they gave Peggy Sheehy, the SMS media specialist, an earful. Listen and learn the bits of wisdom that can be gleaned from the students, if we only dare to ask them."

Check Out These Links -- Diigo 3/1/09

• PicLits.com - Create a PicLit

  Choose a photo, then drag and drop descriptive words to your photo.

  tags: writing, photos, web2.0, piclit

• ARKive - A unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species

  "Welcome to ARKive, a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species." The pictures and videos on this site are amazing.

  tags: science, animals, resources, images, reference

• anchoractivities » home

  Tons of games and activities for students.

  tags: anchoractivities, activities, games

• Capzles

  tags: timeline, slideshow, photos, multimedia, web2.0, capzles

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.