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Educators Integrating Technology
Join The Earth Day Groceries Project, which is celebrating its fourteenth year on the Internet. This on-line collaborative project does not require registration. At the website you will find detailed directions, FAQ, PowerPoint presentations, and much more! There is also a project blog.
Procedure
- A school/group borrows paper bags from a local grocery store.
Students decorate those bags with beautiful environmental art and
environmental awareness messages. - The bags are then returned to the store.
Thestore distributes those decorated bags (full of groceries) to amazed shoppers
on Earth Day, April 22nd. - The school sends in a report to the project web site, documenting its participation.
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Kids are Authors is Scholastic’s annual competition for teams of three or more students who write and illustrate their own books. Scholastic Book Fairs will publish the winning books and distribute them at Book Fairs throughout the country. The 2006 Nonfiction Winner was What Do You Call a Rhyming Riddle? A Hinky Pinky! It was written and illustrated by Fifth grade students at the St. Joseph Montessori School in Columbus, OH. The 2006 Fiction Winner was Problems with Pete the Pencil and Eddie the Eraser. It was written and illustrated by Third grade students at Kingsland Elementary in Spring Valley, MN. See the Rules & Entry Form web page at Scholastic for all the details.
- K-8
- Deadline: March 15, 2007
- 2 Grand Prize schools: $5,000 in merchandise
- 25 Honorable Mentions: $500 in merchandise
- Winners announced by May 31st
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The High School Broadcasting classes have posted their first news stories on Willard WebTV. The students wrote, shot and edited their own productions, which include: Ice Storm Stories, Willard Basketball, Power Outage Tips, and the US Troops in Iraq and the Surge. The newscasts include student and teacher interviews, photographs, music, text, and animation. Donna Fishel’s students have done an excellent job.
It is wonderful to have WillardWebTV available for our schools to use to communicate with our community.
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Mrs. Jennifer DeTrolio, a teacher at the Deerfield Terrace School in Linden, NJ, has started on on-line collaborative project in her 3rd grade classroom. The project, “My Favorite Dr. Seuss Character” is a Reading Across America 2006 Online Project. The K-5 participants are reading Dr. Seuss books and then voting on their favorite character. The project ends March 1st with results to be posted on the 2nd.
To register send Jennifer an email with your contact information. See the Project Information page of her web site for the details. She also provides a list of on-line resources on her Links webpage.
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“Traineo is a free and simple website that gives you the motivation and support to reach your weight loss and fitness goals.”
In addition to the expected tools for tracking your diet, exercise, and weight loss, Traineo includes a collaborative, social aspect to keep you motivated. You choose 4 friends to be your motivators. They will receive weekly updates on your progress and respond with motivational feedback. In addition, as a part of the Traineo community you can share tips with other participants in the forums. There is a library of fitness and nutrition articles, and an on-line talk show.
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