Thing #6 continued

Well, I thought I'd move on, but I've gotten stuck here. It's a good stuck though! The trading cards have been a hit. I've taught several classes, individual students and teachers and my schedule is full of classes for next week. If nothing else, the trading card experience has been worth doing Library 2 Play!
My PGP students want to do nothing but make playing cards, they came up with a list of activities to do for the spring semester...nearly all had to do with playing with trading cards. I may have created a monster! Tomorrow they are going to bring what they made at home. I've got to get to Thing #7!

Response from faculty meeting....a success...I'm scheduled to teach at least one class of everything I shared.....still need to get a few teachers on board...but I'm getting there. Hopefully soon we'll have technology (in whatever form) embedded in every curriculum topic at school.

Thing #6 Third Party Sites

Well, after spending a few days reading and rereading the article, I think I finally have a grip on Mashups. I think I have used them, just not knowing that's what they were. I have had a difficult time staying on task....so many of the sites have additional links that of course I must go out and see what they are. I spent about an hour chasing rabbits last night! I got to the trading card site and played around a bit there. My second grade students are doing their biography unit on heroes right now and I could definitely see the students making trading cards using the heroes they are researching. What fun it would be! The end result would be fun to actually print and trade. So far everything I have explored I can put directly into use in a classroom situation. I will be sharing several of these things tomorrow at the faculty meeting. I can't wait to see the reaction of my staff. Hopefully my schedule will fill up with classes so I can share the knowledge before I forget it. This has so far been a fun experience, giving me the "right" to play and explore all kinds of new things!