Thing #15

1001 Flat World Tales is an awesome blog, mainly because it's international! How cool to be able to read, comment, or edit other kids stories and blogs. Although, I did notice that there hasn't been recent activity on the discussion area. Some of the stories are really funny, and it's weird because I thought the kids from Korea would have some sort of different writing style and ideas, shows what I know and what I discovered and my students would certainly benefit from that. All students are invited to try and let their stories "survive" to get published and there are instructions to post their own versions. I found Mr. Burnell's meet and greet page a little shocking...maybe just TMI.

Salute to Seuss was also an interesting blog site, because who doesn't love Dr. Seuss? The site was well organized and easy to navigate through, considering that SO many students participated. One thing that annoyed me was that several of the links to view student/school's finished projects were broken. Overall, there are tons of lesson plan ideas and examples that I could show my students if we celebrated Dr. Seuss day, I didn't know one existed :)

Way to go Mr. Monson for creating the thousands project! It's really well organized, inviting, elaborate (yet easy to use), and informative. It's really awesome that he's getting his students excited about using wikis and encouraging other students from all over to participate! The questions are relevant to kids and many of them provoke higher order thinking, hopefully he'll continue with this project long enough so my students can get involved.

I wikied Pac Man, because my boyfriend and few other people are playing it right now, so it was the first thing that came to mind, not to mention that I love it too :) There's a plethora of information on him, personality or behavior of the ghosts, history, and newer versions. I looked under the history tab and there has already been 12 revisions in October alone, I didn't think there would be that many. Also under the discussions, there was one that I thought was funny, Pac Man was invented 36 thousand months ago (impossible that's 3000 years ago), and the person wanted a citable LOL. It's been revised since that comment. It goes to show that you shouldn't believe everything on Wikipedia to be a valid source of information.