Check out our Chicos 20 Slide Show!

Congratulations to all our Chicos 20!!! You worked hard and you deserve a big clap!!!!
Keep on shining!

K12 Online Conference 2007

The 2006 K-12 Online Conference provides outstanding opportunities for free, collaborative, accessible professional learning for educators around the globe. As you know we are participating in this very important on line Conference. You can find us in Classroom 2.0.. The presenters are Vance Stevens, Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, Saša Sirk, and Rita Zeinstejer and our presentation is
“Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating”
When describing our presentation you can read...

The presenters play with boundaries through the simple expedient of having student bloggers in different countries tag their blog posts with the unique tag term writingmatrix. Searching on that tag in Technorati, the student bloggers in four locations in three different countries have managed to locate one another’s posts, leave comments for one another, and have subsequently interacted in other ways as well. The presenters explain how they started the project and how it has branched into other online and even face to face activities involving the students in the participant countries. The presentation is made not only through the voices of the presenters, but with the students themselves lending their voices through their blogs and videos.

Here, you can watch and listen to or just listen to our presentation

Also, Wesley Fryer podcasted a great on comment about our presentation. Thanks Wesley for your kind words.
Of course... Thanks to our students... they are the most important since they are our inspiration..a warm hug to you all!!!! Teachers and students make the world of education go around and using web 2.0 tools connect them to have F.U.N!!!!

Keep on shining an blogging!
Doris3m

Blog Action Day! Save the world save your big house!!!

Blog action day? what-s that? another interesting question... well, here it-s the answer...
On October 15th - Blog Action Day, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone's mind. Environment!!! What do you think about it? should we be concerned with what-s happening in the world?

Today in class, we talked about Blog Action Day and the environment..... We all know that Planet Earth is our big house and whatever happens to the planet is important to us. We are responsible for what happens in our house. Since the Earth is our house we should keep it clean and beautiful. Global warming is affecting our house. Ice is melting and the water level in seas and rivers is raising to a point that the weather is going extreme and extreme weather is causing a lot of damage and death all around our big house. What can we do to stop global warming?

• Recycling
• carpooling
• stop polluting
• act, care, be awared
• Saving energy... turning off the lights when we go out a room... for example

This is what "Arthus" a 14 year-old student from Vermont has to say about environmental ideas.... Check it out!

Do you have more ideas? let us know by leaving a comment...

In honor of Blog Action Day, Blogger-s people wanted to highlight some of the many Blogger-powered blogs that are focused on the environment, climate change, and sustainability. Want to see more Blog Action Day participants from around the web? Find them on Blog Search.

• Cleantech Blog - Commentary on technologies, news, and issues relating to next generation energy and the environment.
• The Conscious Earth - Earth-centered news for the health of air, water, habitat and the fight against global warming.
• Earth Meanders - Earth essays placing environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues.
• Environmental Action Blog - Current environmental issues and green energy news.
• The Future is Green - Thoughts on the coming of a society that is in balance with nature.
• The Green Skeptic - Devoted to challenging assumptions about how we live on the earth and protect our environment.
• Haute*Nature - Ecologically based creative ideas, art & green products for your children, home and lifestyle, blending style with sustainability.
• The Lazy Environmentalist - Sustainable living made easy.
• Lights Out America - A grassroots community group organizing nationwide energy savings events.
• The Nature Writers of Texas - The best nature writing from the newspaper, magazine, blog and book authors of the Lone Star State.
• Rachel Carson Centennial Book Club - Considering the legacy of Rachel Carson's literary and scientific contributions with a different book each month.
• Sustainablog - News, information and personal meanderings related to environmental and economic sustainability, green and sustainable business, and environmental politics.
• These Come From Trees - An experiment in environmentalism, viral marketing, and user interface design with the goal of reducing consumer waste paper.

I am Superman. What Super Hero are you?

Your results:

You are Superman
You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.

Superman 70%

Green Lantern 70%

Robin 70%

Wonder Woman 60%

Spider-Man 50%

The Flash 50%

Iron Man 45%

Supergirl 40%

Hulk 35%

Catwoman 20%

Batman 20%

Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...

I have to tell that.... that's my exact description... What about you? take the Super Hero Quiz and let us know which one you are.... by leaving a comment in our class blog.

Keep on shining! My superheroes!!!!