http://adam547.edublogs.org A Blog About Using Technology in the Classroom Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:13:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Site:  Interactives: Rock Cycle Ok, I said I'd get beyond the science stuff, but I just can't help it.  This week's site is a great interactive one centered around the rock cycle.  Using lots of flash animation, the site has an interactive rock cycle, explanations for each type of rock and ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/10/19/wow-4/ I'm finally getting there!  After much monkeying around with different blog services, I settled on edublogs as my class blog and we're just now getting it underway.  I wanted to provide a link to the blog for you to look at-please feel free to leave comments for myself or my ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/09/18/our-class-blog/ Site:  Earth & Sky:  A Clear Voice for Science I promise I'll move on to some non-science sites in the coming weeks, but as I try and build things for this year I've just got a bunch of science resources that are really, really cool.  This week's site is Earth/Sky Kids, ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/09/07/wow-3/ Yes, the W.O.W!'s are back!  Now that things are starting to settle down just a little bit, I've been able to explore a little more on-line and find some good resources.  I've also been looking throughout the summer, so I'll be adding a few I found over the last couple ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/08/28/wow-for-82708/ Whew!  After having been away from the classroom for two years, I'd forgotten how much a school day can do in your brain...I have a mish-mash of names, faces, things to do, things I forgot to do, and things I want to do all running around my brain at once.  ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/08/11/day-1/ Ok, now that I've got the job comes the real work. One of the things I'm trying to sort out right now is just how to set up blogging (which I want my students doing) for over a 100 students-actually about 150. I want them blogging about the ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/08/04/blogging-with-100s/ Ok, yes, I did steal the title from Star Wars, but it really is for me.  After a couple of frantic months looking for a new teaching position, I landed finally in the Peoria Unified District (in Phoenix) as a 7th grade science teacher.  So, in some ways I'm picking ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/07/25/a-new-beginning/ Ok, so it's been a week.  Yea, I'm not quite keeping up the pace I had hoped for the summer, but it's hardly due to sunbathing.  I've still been busy putting in my hours on the job as well as helping out with a graduate class at ASU West (which ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/catching-up/ I'm finally getting my 2.0 resource pages up and running!  If you follow the link at the top for Go 2.0! you will find a number of educationally useful 2.0 sites/applications sorted out by category.  This is basically designed to be a resource bank for teachers-so please feel free to ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/06/19/go-20/ Ok, I'm a little late this week with my new 2.0 (when I say new I mean new for me, of course) but I figured it worth posting late to enjoy Father's Day weekend (and it was :) ).  My new for this week was Twitter, basically an on-line instant ... http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/06/18/summer-of-new-20-2-twitter/