Sunday, October 14, 2007

ACTIVITY DAY POSIBILITIES

November hosts another Activity Day here at school. I am collecting some ideas for possible activities that the kids can create.

This is a link for making Christmas cards: http://desktoppub.about.com/od/cards/tp/Digital-Card-3D-Santa.htm?nl=1

Link for making Christmas cards with a pop-up tree: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Christmas-Tree-Pop-up-Card

Link for making Christmas cards with a pop-up angel: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Angel-Pop-up-Card

Link from HP for making cards and other projects: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/acCategory?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&extcat=cards&

Link for making bookmarks: http://www.janbrett.com/bookmarks/bookmarks.htm

More bookmarks: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/bookmarkfactory/

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Another toy - my new wiki

Before I forget (hahaha), this is the URL to my new wiki:

http://afterclass.wetpaint.com

Creating a blog in Blogger.com

We have spent a lot of time setting up blogs for Years 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 here at the school. While the kids somehow think this is their personal space to promote their videos, it's actually their online "process journals" and is required as part of their coursework!

Here is the video that the students viewed - It's short and sweet!