summercore

Well, I have certainly learnt a great deal this week! I can now make a voice thread and have learnt to use other applications and tips in the process. I am now trying to embed the voicethread I make in this blog and since I have never done that before it may take some time. Here we go!

my first voicethread

I must be getting better at it: it only took 30 seconds!

google earth
create guide tours
2008 wiki notes
guided tours already created
new version
street views
enter address

click street view to zoom
great to show view of a city

constantly adding new features
3d buildings

weather feature: great when doing weather in C4

radar where clouds are and were they are moving. amount of precipitation within clouds
the closer you get, more info appears
borders and labels: places names
don’t turn on too many labels

gallery
global awareness hot spots/ issues of the day.
arrow: drop down menu
if features don’t appear, you might nned to zoom in.
places: guided tours
creating stops along the way
KML: key note language
Odyssey:
google earth menu
preferences
touring tab

show balloon when tour is posed has to be on.
Tour paused to show the journey

scavenger hunt around paris
gave them money
and had to go to different places
find businesses
cafe
cinema
when you click on sthg it goes to google maps

great pyramids
why did they build them there? show them where they are and generate discussion

tour of paris
candide
to find them
earth.google.com
the gallery
files that people have created
can be downloaded
other way to find them
google advanced search
search for a specific file type
ppt+ candide
ppt+ civil war
google earth KML
google earth KMZ
find all these words: baseball park
file type: KML
search
have to be downloaded
control click. menu appears
save link as
then can be downloaded
when you doubleclick on it it ataumatically opens google earth
it stores it my places
google sky: little planet which looks like saturn

I have not done the reading yet but I have spent time using my delicious account and bookmarking sites. I also read some the articles Lynne mentioned about privacy and also about the greatest generation gap. Enlightening really. I look forward to reading chapter 11.

I read this chapter and tried to imagine how my 6th grade students could use it. I imagine I might ask them to reexplain a grammar point covered in class in their own words. it would be a great way to check if they have understood or how much they have retained. However, I worry that it might add to the time they spend on homework. I am aware that whenever I sit down to do something it always takes me much longer than I had anticipated! So how often would I use it? Once per chapter? Once a day? Difficult to know what is age appropriate since some of them already know more than I do but others have no previous experience.

Qui veut gagner des millions?I read the first 12 chapters of the homework and I found it comforting to see it acknowledged that learning about technology is time consuming.