Karen Vogelsang Your Partner in Teaching & Learning 

The OC is bursting with vegetables that the students planted in the spring.  We went out to the OC earlier in the week and picked two different types of cucumbers.  On Friday afternoon we broke out the ranch dressing and sliced up the cucumbers for a healthy snack!  The students really enjoyed both types of cucumbers!

A new crop of students means new opportunities to learn!

Ever have dreams of a make over?  A complete make over from head to tail?  Well the New York Zoos and Aquarium is just the place for you!!  check out this link and make a new you!  Want a new smile, or brighter eyes?  No  problem select the butterfly eyes like I did!  Not happy with the appearance of your backside?  Not a problem for the Wild Self – just select a penguin bottom, or an elephant bottom, or I’m just waiting to be squashed – I have a new spider bottom!  So you can see my new wild self below – a sputterfly!  A new creature that’s part butterfly and part spider!

Daija worked so hard on this video. She wanted it just right and she was not going to stop until she got it the way she wanted it! She even wanted just the right music so she went home, got her flash drive and loaded the exact song she wanted. She did a great job!

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I realize this glogster poster has nothing to do with the unbearable heat we are all dealing with right now, but maybe this will take you back to a colder time this year!! I wanted to practice making a glogster poster and stick with a theme. I was able to import a bunch of snow day pictures and make this in less than 30 minutes, and I’ve never done one before! I had fun adding some sound (you will see the play buttons on the snow flake and by the eyes where Stephen is practicing his writing in Japanese) even though I hate the sound of my voice! How do my students listen to me? Anyway…

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Being a Discovery STAR Educator pays off yet again! A weekly e-mail showcased more fun tools for teachers. This week I learned all about Bing maps! Check out the treasure map format for finding my school:

Al and I have been working with an AWESOME bunch of students from around the city at this year’s Got Tech? camp! They have really dived in to learning anything and everything tech to make their blogs look great. Here are a couple of examples of slide shows the kids put together using Photo Peach. One version allows you to embed a story code the other version allows you to embed a sprial code. Take a look at some student work so far…more to come!

This first video is by Carter:

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This video spiral slide show is courtesy of Mary:

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