Sarah’s Play Dough Oklahoma Map
Sarah recorded a three minute podcast tonight describing this project, using the new iOS app Opinion.
Category: socialstudies
Background of the Lincoln Douglas Debates
Alexander created this ten minute video for his seventh grade history day project: “Background of the Lincoln Douglas Debates.”
Alexander discusses his Living in Oak Ridge Project and Glogster EDU
This is a ten minute interview with Alexander this evening about his “Living in Oak Ridge” project for 8th grade English.
Discussing Oak Ridge Glogster Project at Oklahoma City, OK by wfryer
For more background see my post, “Share “timed” comments on Audio Recordings with SoundCloud.” I am going to buy YouTube subscribers so more people can see me playlist on social media.
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5th Grade Colonial Living History Museum
This evening was the 5th grade Colonial Living History Museum event at our elementary school.
This is a major highlight for 5th graders, who prepare for weeks to dress and act like a character from the US Revolutionary War era. Our fifth grade daughter was Catherine Barry, known as the “heroine of Cowpens.”
Our current elementary school in Edmond is pretty huge, with around 800 total kids. This panoramic photo I took this evening of the cafeteria as the event got underway reflects how many students as well as parents are in the five fifth grade classes at our school.
The students initially paraded into the cafeteria, and performed a short, colonial-era dance together.
Next, students spread out throughout the building and took up their places as characters in a “living history museum.” Visitors (parents and siblings) could “push their button” on their nametags, and students would come to life sharing a one or two minute memorized script about the life and accomplishments of their historical person. After repeating her script more times than she could count tonight, Sarah agreed to let me record her performance after we got home. It was a LOT quieter to record at home than it would have been at school!
It was interesting to notice how many cameras were in hands tonight, and how many of the younger attendees were using smartphones as their cameras!
This was a great event and one I know Sarah will remember forever. Our son, Alexander, is in 7th grade now and clearly remembers his night as “Henry Knox!”
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Computers- Changing Lives and the World
Signing the Declaration of Indepandence
In my social studies class we got to sign the Declaration of Indepandence! You get to pick what type of writing you want. You can choose Colonist,American or Patriot. You can choose black and white or color. It will give some background info. too. Also you will need a printer for this activity. I think this will get the students involved in history and it is a very cool activity to do in class.
Watch and Respond
Alexander: Since you were not able to join Sarah and I to watch President Obama’s speech today “live,” I’d like you to watch the speech and then compose a response you can either post here on Learning Signs, record as a video on YouTube, or record as an audio message via AudioBoo. Let me know if you need help with either option 2 or 3. 🙂
Also check out Sarah’s response, and the comments others have left for her there. She may need to record a follow-up video to answer some of those questions!
Audioboo Reflections from Pearl Harbor
Our family visited Pearl Harbor today. Rachel and I recorded six new Audioboos tonight, reflecting on things we saw and learned today. These are all linked from my AudioBoo profile page. Since I am mobile blogging this from my iPhone I can’t embed the Audioboos, but I will link them separately below.
Rachel: Torpedo At Pearl Harbor
Rachel: USS Utah Reflections From Pearl Harbor
Rachel: USS Arizona Impressions
Wesley: Dogfight Over Ka’ena Point, Hawaii (12/7/1941)
Wesley: USS Oklahoma Memorial Reflections
Rachel: Learning About Navy Divers At Pearl Harbor
Learning about Lincoln at Ford’s Theater
Alexander recorded this AudioBoo after we toured Ford’s Theater today in Washington DC.
My AudioBoo account is linked to Twitter so a link to this was automatically tweeted out, but when I posted this with WordPress for iPhone I was NOT able to copy/paste the actual embed code unfortunately. It would be great if AudioBoo would adapt their mobile interface to permit copying of the embed code on an iPhone.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Videos from the Medieval Festival in Norman
This is absolutely too cute not to share. I think we can title this “Camel Ride Promo Spot.”
Yes, the annual Medieval Festival in Norman, Oklahoma, IS a good time for all. Except, of course, if you’re a teenager who gets into a child’s swing and gets so stuck the Norman Fire Department has to come cut your swing down so you can get out of it!
We did some in-the-field documentation of Rachel and Sarah’s perceptions of our evening in Norman using AudioBoo on my iPhone. These were the first AudioBoos we’ve recorded and uploaded over the EDGE network connection, rather than WiFi. It took a lot longer for the upload, but they DID work! Here are more of Rachel’s thoughts about her camel ride:
Here is Sarah’s recap of the evening’s highlights:
Sarah did pretty well learning from the “sphere play” instructor!
This was, by far, my favorite photo of the day!
We’re heading back tomorrow for more fun and food! 🙂
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Character Map of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Sarah brainstormed the following character map for her biography book report on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis this evening with her mother. I put her concept map into Webspiration tonight and printed it for her to turn in Monday in class. The embeddable version of this Webspiration map uses the “iFrame” tag. Here is a Skitch screenshot posted to Flickr.
![Webspiration - [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/3279785263_256599e662.jpg)
Nice work Sarah! We may record a VoiceThread using this character map as an outline tomorrow morning.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
In third grade you have to do a few different book reports and this is my second book report. It is on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and here is her timeline, but there will be another one on her character traits!
Schoolhouse Rock in Lubbock VoiceThread
Sister created a GREAT VoiceThread this evening about her experiences in a summer camp the past two weeks offered by the Hub Performing Arts School in Lubbock, Texas. The students in the camp performed “Schoolhouse Rock Jr.” which is a musical based on the Schoolhouse Rock short films.
Questions for an Australian Sea Captain
On Thursday, April 10, 2008, we are going to participate in a live videoconference with one of the sea captains Sue Waters works with at a maritime academy in Perth, Australia. Perth is on the other side of the world from where we live in Edmond, Oklahoma. They are 11 hours ahead of us. This means that when we start the videoconference at 8:30 pm US Central Time on Thursday, it will be 9:30 am the next day (Friday) in Perth. It will be 1:30 AM on Friday April 11th GMT time. This webpage from the WorldTimeServer website shows the relative times in our locations. We will be participating in this videoconference just before going to bed on Thursday night, Sue and the others in Western Australia will be just starting their morning of work on Friday! You can use this WorldTimeServer converter page to determine what time it will be where you live when this live videoconference takes place.
Sue is going to try and broadcast this conference over Ustream.tv using her Ustream channel. If she runs into trouble she is going to use Skype and call us directly, and we will record the call to share later. Hopefully Ustream will work, however, so more people can join in. We successfully tested a Skype connection between Oklahoma and Western Australia last night.
Recently Sue created a short (<2 min) video showing some of the fish farming and aquaculture that she works with and around in her job. My connection to Sue is thanks to some helpful comments she made on a blog post I wrote a couple of weeks ago about compasses and magnets. Out of that post and my own learning experience (correcting some misconceptions I’d had about compasses) has emerged this live, synchronous learning opportunity between people literally on other sides of the planet. Amazing.
Sue asked us to brainstorm some questions we’d like to ask to an experienced sea captain prior to our videoconference. The following is the list we came up with tonight after dinner! If you have more questions to add, feel free to add them as comments to this post or just send them directly to Sue via her Twitter account. (@dswaters)
As the crow flies (or perhaps an SR-71) Perth is 10,545 miles away from Edmond. (We used Google Earth to calculate this distance.) The following map shows our relative locations on our planet:
ABOUT SAILING AND SHIPS
Alexander: What types of ships have you been on?
Sarah: How big is the engine on your ship?
Alexander: How big is your crew?
Alexander: Is your ship coal-fired like the Titanic was?
Sarah: Do you have any kids that are interested in sailing?
EXPERIENCES
Alexander: How many years have you been a sailor?
Alexander: What do you think of when you leave for an ocean trip? (What are you thinking just when you leave the harbor)
Shelly: What kinds of sounds do you hear at night on the ship?
Alexander: What do you check on your ship when you first set out?
Sarah: How long are your trips?
Shelly: What kind of food do you eat when you are on the ship?
Alexander: What supplies do you carry?
Sarah: What do you know about compasses? Have you ever used a compass?
Shelly: What is the longest voyage you have ever been on, without touching (setting foot) on land?
DANGERS
Wesley: My kids don’t believe that pirates are still real and a danger in some parts of the world. Have you ever encountered any real pirates, or known other sailors who have?
Sarah: How deep is the water in the ocean where you have sailed?
Alexander: Have you met any sharks or other sea creatures?
Sarah: Have you hit an iceberg before?
Wesley: Have you ever been lost on a voyage or had to get on a life boat for real because your boat was damaged in some way?
OPINIONS
Sarah: What is your favorite thing to do on the ship?
Wesley: What are the most challenging and most rewarding things about being a sailor and a ship captain?
Alexander: How much training do you have to have to be a sailor and a sea captain?
President Clinton
Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946. He was born in Hope Arkansas. He was the 42nd president of the United States. He was in office from 1996 to 2001.President Clinton was known for loving McDonalds and junck food and playing the saxophone.Chelsea Clinton is President Clinton’s daughter. Hillary Rodham Clinton is his wife. She is runing for President.President Clinton signed many laws as President. One of them was the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. This law says that moms with paying jobs can spend more time whith there babys after they are born.In 1999 President Clinton told the Army and the air force to go attack the Serbians who were killing the Albanians in Yugoslavia. The Albanians are people and he didn’t want them to get hurt.