Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Collaborative Podcast/Website URL

Thank you Mike for compiling our 3 podcasts! Also as I told you guys via text message I will be getting the website URL started early this weekend so we can get that going! We are almost done!

Sunday, June 1, 2014

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tvczdmGx350nWQ9kk9FtZl_XBxXfVFpX6aZmMQFUj_k/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the data chart for our Weather Monitoring Project!

Jenna's Digital Story

Hey guys! I can't get my digital story on to YouTube, so here it is! Enjoy it.

Google Maps

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Western+Michigan+University,+1903+W+Michigan+Ave,+Kalamazoo,+MI+49008/Darwin+Middle+School,+Atkins+Dr,+The+Gardens+NT+0820,+Australia/@16.6842292,-176.577148,3z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x881777dbae0f27ad:0xc17c1786b9ea635b!2m2!1d-85.615219!2d42.283178!1m5!1m1!1s0x2cc091807040cce5:0x2c3913b52377bfee!2m2!1d130.835602!2d-12.438368

So that is the URL for the Map, I just simply did WMU to Darwin Middle School in The Gardens NT, Australia. I still need to add the summary about how it will be used but let me know what you think about the map.

Summary For Google Map: 

The Google Map that we had chosen shows the distance between Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Darwin Middle School in The Garden NT, Australia. The Google Map can be used in the Virtual Penpals activity in many ways. I believe that it would be most beneficial to use it at the start of Virtual Penpals. I believe this is the best way to incorporate the map because it will clearly show our students how far Australia is in correspondence to Michigan. It will also be a good introduction to the Penpals as well. The map can also be used at the end of the lesson as well after the students gather the information throughout the 4 week period. The map can be used to show how different weather can be in two places that are very far away from each other. I think the map can be used in both ways and be a great source for our students to see how far two places can be from each other and have either the same or different weather. 

Digital Story

We have discussed our topics through text message so I just wanted to post them on here for Sharon. I will be doing meteorology, Mike will be doing weather fronts, and  Jenna will be doing severe weather.