Website

Hey girls, I've been looking over the stuff for the website, and I noticed that we haven't divided it up yet. We need a total of 7 pages and we are all supposed to contribute to the home page. If you want, I can start the homepage tomorrow morning and you guys can fill things in if you want. I think it is a good idea to put the concept map and the podcast on the homepage since they are kind of overviews of our project. We should make the standards into a subpage of the homepage, so if you guy want to do that part I can take care of the overview. I was also thinking that we should let each other know what we did our lesson plans on so we can base some of the pages on those. That will help the pages come together easier. I did my lesson plans on the food pyramid and healthy snacks and my digital story on ways to stay healthy, so I'd like to do one of my pages on the food pyramid and healthy eating and another on ways to stay healthy maybe. We also need to include our virtual pen pals, so if that isn't easily incorporated into anyone's page, I can do a third page and make it about that. Let me know!

Final Concept Map

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Anyone else having a problem accessing the site? It keeps telling me 'runtime error'.

website

Hey girls, i say that we split up the website assignment and figure out what everyone should do soon. Its a pretty big assignment so we should start working on that. Also the concept map...(inspiron?) is due soon, and Hannah since you were the one to make the first one do you just want to make the final one too? let me know your thoughts on everything :)

podcast

hey girls, i sent my part of the podcast to each of you. let me know if you got it and if you need me to do anything else. :)

Podcast

Hey Hannah, I have your portion of the podcast and it sounds great. I haven't put it together yet because I haven't received Chelsea's portion. I've been checking both of my email accounts all week and I'm starting to worry because I have to work at 3 and I really need to get it put together before then. Do you have any way to contact her quickly?

Podcast

Hi Carrie! I just wanted to check and see if you had put together the podcast? Can you send Chelsea and I copies? You got our sections, yes?

Lesson Plan Two

I am doing my lesson plan on the same topic as my digital story, locomotor/non-locomotor/manipulative skills. Students will collect data to see how much each skill is used in their group-section of the obstacle course/Big Idea.

Podcast II

Hey! Carrie, I used your wmich email, so it's strange that it didn't go through. I'll try using both next time. I like your plan for the podcast, let's go for that. Thank you for being willing to put it all together! If I understand correctly, the goal is to discuss our project and project-based learning. So you'll start off with the introduction of projected based learning. Since we have information on our virtual pen pals, we could next talk about how we will incorporate cross-cultural awareness within our project. We could also talk about the use of technology, such as having each student-group keep a blog for their section of the obstacle course and contribute to the class wiki. I can talk about the use of technology - so about a minute or a minute and a half? Then Chelsea, you could do cross-cultural awareness or a different topic you'd like to talk about. I'll work on my section now and send it to both of you. If it doesn't fit, I should have a bit of time to redo it tomorrow afternoon.


Hey girls, I was just looking at the podcast, I am going to start a little bit of it tonight, but it is not due till next Sunday. As for the topic I will def just do my part of the cross-cultural awareness. Talk to you soon!

Also, I read the comment that you have been communicating through email, but I was looking at our points and we get graded on how much we use the blog to communicate, so maybe we should try and use it more because that is worth 80 points! And for my lesson plan, I think I am doing it on kids' favorite healthy snacks. So for the data collection they will poll different classrooms on what their favorite healthy snacks are and create a spreadsheet in Excel. Have a great day and I'll talk to you soon!

Podcast

Hey girls, Hannah, I never got your email! I checked it a lot, so I don't know what happened. Here are the two that I use the most, so hopefully one works: carrie.j.brown@wmich.edu cjbrown723@gmail.com Now I know that we have our podcast this week, so I was thinking that we can pick two concepts from the book, and then do an overview of what PBL is at the beginning. I will take care of that portion, and that should take up to close to 2 minutes. So if you guys want to decide what two topics to do, then you can just each email me your part and I will take care of putting it all together and finding the music to go with it. Let me know!!

just checkin in!

Hey, so we did well on our project :) nice job. hope that you did well on your digital story! What are you thinking about doing your lesson plan on, so we dont do the same thing...let me know! talk to you soon.

Map to Virtual Pen-Pals Assignment

Our map provides a visual awareness of the distance between Kalamazoo, Michigan and Aomori, Japan. Students from both classrooms, in the pen-pal project, can view the route. They can also zoom in and look at the surrounding areas; if we were working with actual classes, we would have the addresses of each of the elementary schools.  An idea would be to have students give each other addresses of grocery stores, farms, or other locations regarding nutrition. They could then use Google Maps to find the locations and view them on street view.
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Virtual Pen-Pals Assignment

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15csn9m858ZidbvZvl1eyR-GRvNPSbjL2mFIq1VJnrYs/edit

Carrie

Hey Carrie - Chelsea set up a Google Docs, which we sent to your wmich email, but we're not sure if you've gotten it or connected. I also made a map and emailed it to the same email. Let me know if you need it sent to a different email or haven't received it.

thank you carrie for putting your email up!

Digital Story

Hey ladies, I'm doing my digital story on ways to stay healthy, including: washing hands, dressing according to the weather, eating right, exercising, covering your mouth when you cough/sneeze, not drinking after others,and getting plenty of sleep. I wanted to let you know so we don't all end up doing the same thing! Have a great weekend!

hey carrie, thank for letting us know what you were doing your digital story on. I did mine on eating healthy, so were on the right track with not having the same topic! :)

By the way Hannah, that was an awesome big idea!!

Hey ladies, I didn't see any posts about what you guys did for your lesson plans, but I thought I'd let you know that I did mine on the food pyramid and the importance of the 5 basic food groups. Also, how are we breaking up the virtual pen pals/google maps assignment? Let me know!