Three branches of government

Mike
I think I figured out what I did wrong.
I spent a lot of time scrutinizing the branches of government sites for our students. This one is great and I would like to add to our page. By the way, I saw a number of these facts we covered together on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader. Hope the kids were watching!
Look forward to seeing you.
Mike

Mimke
Why did this post on this blog, can you delete?
mike

Baseball 09

Last season the Rams finished at exactly .500 and lost to John Jay Cross River in an exciting and close ballgame on the road. Many seniors have graduated and this leaves the Rams with a number of open positions to fill. Start working hard now because many players that are competing to make the team will find themselves challenged. With one year and a lot of learning under my belt. Be ready to play not talk!!
Coach Pisano

August meeting

I have posted the agenda and some of our tasks for August 10 on the wiki. Alice, it's great to see you and the new baby are doing well. Alice has already checked in as of August 6. I posted instructions on how to put a PowerPoint into a wiki, so Alice will be able to post her work directly on the wiki.

We are having a cold, rainy summer here in Alaska. At least 10 degrees colder than normal. The other day Cathy saw a moose in front of our house. I think he was trying to get near our wood stove to get warm!

Last post in July

I just finished my last post in the month of July on the wiki. It appears that everyone has checked in and produced work on the wiki, except that I have not heard from Alice. Has anyone heard from her? Please let me know?

Improving Site

Here's a way to make the wiki site look a little better and to display the front page of a web site you are linking to:
You can display the web pge you are linking to by entering a widget with a special code between these brackets <>
iframe src="http://www.archives.gov/nae/" frameborder="0" height="390" scrolling="no" width="600">

Meeting July 10, 2008

Most of you have received notice that our first meeting for the 24-12 project is set for July 10, 2008. Of course this is not a physical meeting, it will take place on our wiki page and on our blog. Take the time to check in onto our site and post any ideas that you have to update the page. Also take the time to log in your hours of work on the project. For example, today I am spending an hour setting up the project and posting some updates.

I created a new page on the wiki called "Practice Tests" and incorporated some of the links from our previous page onto it. I have updated the page to reflect new links.

You can consider doing the same thing as a start. Pick a page from the last year's project. Copy and paste it onto a new page on the wiki. Give the new wiki the proper name for the page and it will appear in the table of contents. Record your work on the meeting page so we will know what you are working on.

If the wiki is new to you, don't worry, you can't screw up. Any mistakes can be corrected by going to the history page.

Tools you can use

Voice Thread is one of my favorite tools for Web 2.0 in the classroom. Check out this excellent project by elementary students. I will definitely use this tool in my lesson planning for next year:

Re-designed National Archives Website

The National Archives has recently redesigned its website. The site is to use with excellent multimedia effects. Students will have the opportunity to explore digital vaults, where they can build their own personalized collection. Pages are interactive. Students can create their own projects, such as a poster. This site is worth exploring this summer for lesson plan ideas.

past blogs-QUIA

I was looking over the past blogs and I noticed that the district did not pay for QUIA last year. Does this still ring true for this year? I hope it something that we will have access to. It is such a great tool.

wow

I like what George has to say and I am looking forward to working with him (team) also.

Thanks for inviting me to be a part of this project!

Truly creative and too cute and funny! As usual Mike F. you impress me.
Viv

george

it looks interesting but I don't have any volume on my computer I will try it again in the computer lab --later.
Viv

Welcome

Is this working?

Trying it out did I do this right?

wiki training

Mr. Frerichs
Thanks for the tutoring session.
Mike

DBQ practice

testing!!

Getting started

Here are two things to do to make the wiki and blog work for you:

1. Vivian, on the home page go to the discussion tab and check in the way Mike and Vivian have.

2. Everyone, go to the "notify me" tab at the top right. On the second line you will see: Looking for changes to all the pages in this space? Visit the space-wide notification page. Select space wide notification and have notices sent to you email of any changes on the site. That way you don't need to check the wiki, you will get an email whenever we do anything on it.

3. Finally, you can now access the blog through the wiki, I've put a link there. vivian, I sent you an invitation to the blog.

This year's project

Mike and Alice
I am looking forward to this year's project.
Mike