Excellence and Imagination » Classroom Resources http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org all the joy of junior high in one small package Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:09:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Colonization Blogs http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org/2007/06/05/colonization-blogs/ http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org/2007/06/05/colonization-blogs/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:33:50 +0000 mr-fisher http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org/2007/06/05/colonization-blogs/ You absolutely need to take a look at the blogs being written by other people in the class for the colonization project. There blogs can be found at these links:

The Colonization of Africa

The Colonization of Australia

The Colonization of Canada

The Colonization of India

The 13 Colonies – U.S.A.

Colonizing the Caribbean

 The Colonization of Brazil

The Colonization of Mexico

There is a lot of very good research and some very good writing on these blogs. I encourage you to take a look at them and leave a comment for the characters who are keeping them.

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Detectives_in_a_Futuristic_World.mp3

Detective_Eddies_mysteries_jhk_school.mp3

The_Clown_Skunk.mp3

Mystery of the Car Wreck.mp3

A World Once Human.mp3

While we definitely have some learning still to do about audio levels and conversions to mp3, the students have done an excellent job of creating radio plays. Listen to them and let us know what you think!

UPDATE: Just to let you know, in the 12 hours these files have been online, they have been downloaded 50 times already…..

]]> http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org/2007/04/01/radio-plays/feed/ 1 Environmental Articles from the BBC http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org/2006/12/05/environmental-articles-from-the-bbc/ http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org/2006/12/05/environmental-articles-from-the-bbc/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:54:50 +0000 mr-fisher http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org/2006/12/05/environmental-articles-from-the-bbc/ Here are the links to the BBC articles about teenagers and environmental issues. They show that teenagers do have a voice, they can be actively involved in beating climate issues.

Fixing a oil – soaked beach in Lebanon
Requiring Coke to make better use of water in India
Cleaning up abandoned city lots in India
Kids from The Netherlands bet their government and win

Have a local environmental concern? Lets hear about it! What are you doing about it?

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