Apologies

Sorry dear followers, my posts of recent have been few and far between. I've started another online class. This time I'm learning about Visual Literacy. I think I'll try to post some of my work here, I wish the class communicated via blog. Blackboard, the school's platform for online learning, seems clunky after my experiences with blogger!

My student group is up and running. Am still in the process of gathering all of the permission slips to post student work. The kiddos are super excited and their classmates are jealous that they were not invited to participate. I too, am excited, for once, about an afterschool group and have been logging lots of hours trying to develop that blog. Check it out; we hope to establish some global connections!http://partridgeart.edublogs.org/

Zooburst

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. If you I can't wait to use it with my students!
http://www.zooburst.com/index.php

Great web 2.0 for Elementary classes

Storybird is a great site that provides elementary students a safe way to experience web 2.0. Teachers can sign up for a free class accounts where they can create story assignments. Stories created can be private or shared.

About us: a peek inside Storybird by mark on Storybird

Introducing the Digital Penguins!

After much struggle with Edublog, the only blog my district will permit me to use, I finally have created a blog to use with an afterschool group. Check it out:

http://partridgeart.edublogs.org/


I'm a little nervous about administering the blog, not so much the blogging part, but more because the edublog format is so different than what I am used to.
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