Oh Boy!

Goodness! There are some really cool things I look forward to sharing with you this week. Here are just a couple:

Edmodo:
Edmodo is an online classroom communications tool for teachers and students to share Notes, Files, links, and assignments similar to Twitter or Facebook. Do you know what Twitter and Facebook are? To start, we will use it to communicate during class and outside the classroom, just a safe place to "chat." Eventually, we will use it in other inventive ways.

click on this link to check out edmodo

Dropbox:
Forget your zip drive but still want to access your school files at home? Now there is an online resource where you can drop your file in your own online storage resource and access the file from home. It can hold just over 2GB, so it is perfect for all your word documents (items with graphics will consume more space than just words). You can look into this on your own, but we will go over this this week!

Doodle for GOOGLE:
Doodle for Google- (borrowed from Mrs. Carrie Ory's Brookdale site)
… Become a doctor with my own TV show.
… Invent rocket shoes that let you fly.
… Open a zoo for the world’s endangered animals.
Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where K-12 students are invited to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign Google’s homepage logo for millions to see. At Google, we believe that dreaming about future possibilities leads to tomorrow’s leaders and inventors, so this year we're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "What I’d like to do someday…"

Whether students want to find a cure for cancer or take a trip to the moon, it all starts with art supplies and some 8.5" x 11" paper. And, one lucky student artist will take home a $15,000 college scholarship and $25,000 technology grant for their school, among many other prizes. Please turn in all entries to Mrs. Grezlik by 3/10 with the attached sheets. I will fill in the registration information.

Brookdale site for entry forms

For those of you who don't know what we teachers do on our Institute Days or Teacher Work Days, these are the kinds of things we are learning and I hope they work to engage you in your own learning.

Now - you better not still be awake! It is currently 9:03 and you have ISATs tomorrow. Get to sleep!!