Week 3: Richardson book "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms"

I was very intrigued while reading our chapters for this week.  I thought it very interesting when reading through the chapter on Flickr all of the possibilities that can come from this site.  As I continued to read the ideas and assignments automatically started running through my brain.  I particularly liked the idea shared about having students link to the "map" function and be able to get exact coordinates of places.  I immediately thought "Wow, what a cool thing for a computer class in the middle school to do" which is where I used to teach.  The kids would not only enjoy using the map function, but they could go around their city and zoom in and out depending on what they desired to give a detailed description of what it is like for them to grow up where they do.  Allowing the kids to then share this with other students in similar areas would be an interesting assignment.  Having the students do a picture presentation like this will also give them more ownership over the concept possibly showing the kids what a little hard work can do.  What a great little site to share with colleagues. 

Brenda