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Inspired!

Visit the Falcons Face Off page beginning the week of February 21st to read our first attempt at student written battles. Mrs. Moore's English I students have been studying Greek mythology and will be writing the inauguaral games. Voting will begin in late February!

Want to give it a try? Let me know! I'm happy to set up battles for groups of individual students at any and all grade-levels and/or for classes.

What Others Are Doing - and We Could, Too!

Ozarks Students Create Books for Haiti

Is anyone interested in working together on a similar project?

Resources for Successfully Using Web 2.0 in the Classroom

Professional title, Teaching the iGeneration: Easy ways to Introduce Essential Skills with Web 2.0 Tools by William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry is a wonderful resource for teachers just beginning to use technology to increase student engagement as well as those who have already implemented technology successfully into the curriculum. Packed with reproducibles, it's really an essential title for the professional's library. In keeping with the tenents of the book, reproducibles are available online. Find them as a 174 page document or access them individually at: http://go.solution-tree.com/technology/reproducibles_TTiG.html.

Shelfari Book Discussion Group

Is anyone interested in using Shelfari to stage a book discussion group? We could do a test as a private group of educators or, if we're really brave, we could have a private class group. Also, if you take a look at the Read 2.0 page, you'll see an example of a Shelfari shelf widget. It might be fun to put together a class shelf for display on the blog.

Falcons Face Off

Help! We are looking for a sponsor or co-sponsors to manage the Falcons Face Off Matches. We would like to hold the first match in January. Please visit the Show Down site to get an idea of what we're hoping to accomplish. This project is wide-open, so feel free to make it your own. If you are interested in sponsoring or co-sponsoring, please send your contact information to sfoltz@spsmail.org. Thanks!

Seeking Volunteers to Collaborate

I am looking for Library Media Specialists and classroom teachers at any of our elementary feeder schools who would be willing to collaborate with me on a Student Treasures project in the upcoming months.

Additionally, I would like a GHS teacher who would be willing to organize his or her students to help with the writing and editing.

Student Treasures publishes class books, so your students would write a story (you decide the genre) and create the illustrations together to produce a single book. The class will be provided with one free copy of the book which we would like you to donate as a "Class of" book for a special traveling collection to the Library Media Center in your building. As students advance to middle school and to high school, the books their class created would travel them. The theme: someday when I'm a Falcon.

If you aren't familiar with Student Treasures, the process is very simple and the company really does all the work of organizing the project for you. I can put you in touch with other teachers who have collaborated on books in the past if you're interested.

Anyone willing to give it a try?