Chapter 14 Blogs, Wikis, and RSS

I was pleasantly surprised to find that blogs are easy to set up and to manage.  After reading chapter 14, I am inspired to try blogging in my classroom next year.  I especially like the idea of having “Blogging buddies” instead of penpals.  It would also be great to do on the class trip that we will take next year.

Google Earth

•Can create guided tours

•street view feature

•some guided tours have already been created

•multiple layers that can be turned on or off

*Gallery and Global awareness layers

*Guided tours reside under places

*To make tour slower select:

1.            Preferences – touring tab (make sure show balloon when tour is paused is checked

2.            You can  change the length of pause

•You can also go slide by slide on the tour

•scavenger hunt – Paris  would work well in Madrid

1.             Go to monuments

2.             Go to restaurants

3.             Giver students a certain amount of Euros to spend

4.             Find hotel

5.             Go to a corrida de toros

(Make Pamplona Los San Fermines tour)

•Earth.Google.com

            -go to gallery – there will be files that have already been created

•Google

            -advanced search

            -file type powerpoint  or

            -type in topic words and click on KML

•to download ppts – hold control key and chose save link as and download