[Icvv] ICVV projects under way, ideas for your students

[David Rosen]

ICVV Colleagues,

Susan has updated the database of teachers/classes who have matched  
themselves, and whose projects are under way.  You will find the  
database at:

http://www.otan.us/webfarm/emailproject/database3.htm

Please let us know how your project is going.

If you need any help. you can reach us at Susan: sgaer at yahoo. com or  
David: djrosen at theworld.com

I recently learned of a free web site where several people can draw  
something together.  Students could meet in real time -- if it were  
possible to schedule this -- and they could chat -- and draw  
something together.  For example, suppose students were asked to draw  
something which represented for them:

1. Love of a family member
2. A good job
3. Something they wanted to learn to do
4. Something scary

First, each student could go to the site, draw something, and save  
the drawing.  Then students from both sites could save their drawings  
and send them to students at the other site to discuss.

Then the teachers could schedule a time where a student from each  
site could meet online and draw something together.

http://www.imaginationcubed.com/launchpage

As some of you know, we have set up a wiki for this project, and you  
can make your own pages there and set up your own account. It is  
located at

http://tinyurl.com/ptvbb

We have many other exciting new activities to try this year:

• Wikimapia-ing your community
* Mobile phone access to web pages (thanks to Barry Burkett!)
• Writing a "how-to" article for wikiHow

and, of course, community discussions, movie discussions, class  
newspaper article exchange, and whatever else you and your students  
choose to do.

Check out the Activities page on the ICVV Wiki at http://seedwiki.com/ 
wiki/writing_together/2006-2007_activities?wpid=552766

All the best,

David

David J. Rosen
djrosen at theworld.com