Voice Thread

The voice thread we chose incorporated not only science but writing and art as well. The students created illustrations of various weather patterns and made up a poem to go along with it. The students pulled all of their work together and created a book. This shows excellent collaboration between the students and teacher. This activity could easily be implemented into a writing workshop, the students could generate several drafts, making each one better than the last. At the end of the assignment the students can go back and see how their work has developed. This assignment does an excellent job in using Bloom's Taxononmy HOTS. This is also an effective way to organize Pedagogical Implications.

Google Presentation

Google docs is an excellent tool to use in the classroom, it allows you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. Its especially great for group projects, the students can work on it when the time permits and through the revisions history, you can see clearly who contributed to what assignment and when. What I really like about it though is that it encourages multiple revisions and peer editing, I belive peer editing is critical in the classroom. Google docs can help students stay organized and keep on top of their assignments while automatically saving all of their work. Once an assignment is all said and done, the kids can go back and see how it has evolved and think about what it is they learned on the subject.