Discovery Education

I selected two video segments for math and one for ELA. I chose a video for teaching slope to my students because it is an objective on their IEP. I also included one to use to help them with using a graphing calculator. Both of these will take away from all the pencil and paper activities that they are currently receiving. The ELA segment is for when we read the book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham. These are the segments I am using:

Marching in Alabama: The Civil Rights Act
Practicing Finding Slope Given the Coordinates of Two Points on a Line
Discovering Algebra with Graphing Calculators: Finding the Slope of a Line

Comparing flickr and webshot

After looking at both of these websites I chose flickr. I have to admit that it was mostly because someone else was already using it and liked it. It also seemed to be a little bit more user friendly.

geocaching

Today we experienced geocaching for the first time. It was great! Six of us piled into the van and drove to the site. It was fun to have a navigator and talk while I drove. When we reached Oaklawn park where the cache was located, we used our gps to locate the exact spot. Our navigator read off the numbers while the rest of us followed along (we all had a gps but not all of them were working). After we found the cache, we signed the notebook, took our picture and left. It was great. We now have great ideas to do this with future students.