Ch 3

After reading chapter three, I was inspired to try some new things. I have sent in the info to gaggle to set up my students with an email account that I can monitor. I also went ahead and contacted a teacher from a school where I used to work in Milwaukee (Atlas Prep). My hope is that we can do some collaboration between the two schools much like what was done in Ch 3 by Mr. Finley's class. Even though I have not thought about what project we would do together, I thought I should get the ball rolling. I also found that the geomar.de/omc site was a great map creation site for students. It just so happens that I had my students create maps of Egypt this week so I have included a link to that site on my classroom website. http://teacherweb.com/WI/TJMS/MrCowen/t.stm
Here is a question, should teachers maintain their own websites? What are some good ones to use? I tried this teacherweb.com and it is $40 per year. That seemed reasonable since their site has many lessons and webquests.