Inanimate Alice: Episode 2: Italy

http://inanimatealice.com/education.html

From our lesson: Students were encouraged to use Google maps and flickrcc to independently search for the following: Italy, Italian alps, Saudi Arabia, chalet and Snowcat. Some students used Google Images and successfully identified a Snowcat as a machine.

Students read Episode #2: Italy in pairs using library netbooks. Many groups reread and replayed the games.

A demonstration of the Weebly site slide show application was followed by instructions for posting.

From the teacher web site:                   Episode # 2: Italy

Post # 3: Story

Watch Episode # 2: Italy.
Tell the story using ten (10) events only.
Create a slide show using the 10 events and pictures to represent the events in the story.

Post #4: Reflection

Reflect on Episode # 2
What was the best part of this episode? Why?
What was your least favourite part? Why?
What would you change if you could? Why?

Post #5: Emotion

Create a picture that shows one of Alice's emotions during this episode.
Finish the following sentence.
Alice felt........                        when...

We are not going back!

This post on the blog Hey Jude: learning in an online world caught my Teacher-librarian eye. 
Teacher librarians are important.
I especially liked this image:

Image cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photoshared by mikefisher821

But, more importantly these words:

"Be sure you are understand online learning environments and the extra-ordinary potential of the social-media mind. Be sure you are involved with and present new ways and new information strategies to your teachers when working within the curriculum and the full knowledge dimension of learning. Be sure you bring with you a full understanding of information literacy and information fluency as the underpinning of all that you do."

GOOD NEWS!

Happily, I am able to report that yesterday I successfully negotiated with my principal and opened a Campus account to allow 750 students and 30 teachers access to Weebly for class websites and blogs. We are not going back!