Dog!

Stingray!

Turtles!

Google Earth

Google Earth is a lot of fun! A little creepy though...But anyway! When I was playing around with this I thought of my favorite book, where the main character goes on a few trips with her friends. So, I made a tour of all the places she went during the story. I think this would be fun for a class, where students can either write there own story create tour of the places their character goes, or they can map the places of a book they read.

Hudson Valley Home Matters in the running to win the Pepsi Refresh Good Idea Project!

Glogster Assignment

I think Glogster is pretty cool! I love how creative it is, and I think students (as well as myself, haha) could really have a good time using this site both in and out of school. I like the extensive choices for images, background pictures, text options and whatnot, but I think at the same time this aspect gets a little distracting and could make the user focus more on text color rather than the larger project at hand. I wish you could print the posters! When the site was first introduced I got really excited thinking that's what you could do with this, but sadly no...Still a great program though! (Plus I guess you could do a screenshot of the poster you'd like to print.)

I can see myself using this in class, and I think I would like having students using it for projects or to use in conjunction with a presentation or report. I'm not so crazy about having it all online, and I'd want kids to print out their posters - but this might be an issue, since the posters lose some of their effect without a color printer, and I can't assume every student has access to this. But overall, I think it's a lot of fun, and I'd be excited to introduce it to my students.

Hamster!