Final Website

Mrs. Andersen's Website

 I absolutely LOVED creating this website.  I loved the idea of taking something to was foreign to me 6 months ago and getting such a wonderful product out of it in the end.  I cannot wait to begin using this website with my students and my parents.  I felt that this activity of creating a website was extremely useful for the main reason of, it made me think and compute for myself.  I was able to take a blank computer canvas and turn it into a Mosaic Website masterpiece and I can truly say I am proud of it. Enjoy!

Video Slide Show

I would love to use this activity with pictures of students completing certain projects as a way to introduce the project to the next set of students the following year as a way to get them excited about the next activity.  I do however, like Photostory I think better for the idea of a video montage because it allows you to do more with the pictures as far as editing.  Windows Movie Maker was a lot quicker than photostory was when it came to compiling the finished

project together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI1Vxy99YMw

4 x 2 Assignment

Click here for: The Hunger Games 4 x 2

Wundergroud Spreadsheet and Graph

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0ArGt2VWRubC1dC1kbHBSdk5qX1NyQ1I4UDFPV1p0Tnc&hl=en&output=html

This site was hard to navigate through at first, but then was easy to use once you got used to it.  I liked the idea of being able to check not only current weather, but the past weather conditions.  I'm no necessarily sure of how I could incorporate this into my reading classes as of yet, but this is definitely a site I want to share with my science teacher colleagues at work.

Web Scavenger Hunt

Discovery Education Puzzle Maker:

Figurative Language Review Crossword Puzzle 

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1t80Xu4SfQXJaKGuW25UvFcUM5VrYF6HUCpR605W_nTw 

Watsons Go To Birmingham WebQuest

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1nSzDlST33DRJ26QjBttihiC3NJNdrjp3NVMWbxVnwDw

I use this web quest in my room before we begin reading a novel.  It sparks the students' interest and gets them excited about the novel.  I like the idea of having the puzzle be the answers to the Webquest.  I had never thought of doing that before. 

YouTube Video Clips

Top Movie Clips of All Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyGsFApEyYA

I loved this activity and would love to do this in my class with my students with book that have been turned into movies.  They can compile a set of movie clips that were all once books. They can even record themselves and create their own videos for different projects that we could be working in class.  I had a lot of fun creating this and I hope you enjoy it!

Mapping America Activity

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ryo0fce2CjgJciYskxuiU_zJji7oCWCZ6HqAvs1yWWc

One of my content standards is to teach students how to read and interpret graphs and maps.  This census data would be an excellent tool for me to use with my students.  I actually plan on using my actual worksheet I created with my students.