¡Feliz Navidad!

Due 7-12-10

Vamos a celebrar Navidad y necesitamos ornamentos. Puedes (you can) traer (bring) de uno a dos ornamentos para ponerle (put) a nuestro arbolito (our tree) de Navidad. Los ornamentos deben (should) ser mexicanos o españoles.  Para recibir los 10 puntos de credito addicional tienes que etregar(to hand in) informacion acerca (about) de tu ornamento y por que lo escojiste (choose it). El ornamento lo tienes que hacer (make) tú.

Piñatas

¿Qué hacemos (we do) con las piñatas? (bono hasta -until- 11-11-10)

Unidad 3 - tarea

¿Cómo vamos (are we going) a calificar (grade) unidad 3? post in your blog por favor.

Descripciones

Describe your favourite actor/actress include how tall, colour of hair, eyes and name.

Hola chavos

Primero terminen (finish) su diccionario de unidad 2. Segundo escriban en su blog como (how) vamos a (going to) calificar (grade) unidad 2 ideas por favor. Tercero si mencionan la contraseña (password) *un patito rojo* van a tener (going to have) credito extra (vale 3 puntos) mañana miercoles.

Library challenge -- Lesson 10 It's a wrap not a rap or even a haiku

Antes que nada (before anything) ¡Muchas gracias a Jane Heitman Healy y Julie Erickson! (thank you very much) for putting together a great course.

Discovery Exercise -- What was your biggest discovery?

1. For me from lesson 2 on I had no idea we had access to such superb resources, not only for teachers but for students to use (as well as library patrons). I knew of World Book since we have a link in our home page for easy access but I think all the other resources deserve to be linked there as well. I really enjoyed discovering all of them particularly CAMIO.

2. One thing I am glad about is I used my class blog to go through all the lessons, this way I have all the information about the different resources and can point my students to it on my blog and also it will serve as a refresher for me when I need to remember what resource does what this way I will not need to store the information in my long term memory or in student lingo my hard drive. I plan on using several of the resources with different lessons throughout the year.

Library challenge -- Lesson 9 History and Genealogy Resources

Discovery Exercise -- History and Genealogy Resources -- AncestryLibrary, Heritage Quest and Sanborn Maps

1. AncestryLibrary -- After inputting my name in the search box it came up with my address and phone number, though the number no longer exists. Did not have too much information on me other than that.

2. Search for a grandparent -- I looked for my fraternal grandmother but did not find anything on her, am I correct in supposing the site only gives hits for the US? I did find my mother who lives in Illinois but any other searches on my family gave me no results. It could be that I do not know how to use the site and perhaps that is why I did not have much success.

3. Photos and Maps -- This search gave a total of 176,456 pictures ranging from general photos of the bureau of ships to family and yearbook photos. I saw a picture of the Corn Palace from 1909 "..the Corn Palace, built from 3500 bushels of corn..." Also a picture from Deadwood and of a poster offering free homes and cheap deeded land in South Dakota. This was interesting.

4. HeritageQuest -- I browsed a few of the options in HeritageQuest, but not really knowing what or who I am looking for I was at a bit of a loss. While I can see that it would be a great tool for research I think you really need to know what you are looking for. I ended looking at a book on the history of Fresno, California since I have a cousin that lives in Fresno. I think since it appears to be that it is more related to the U.S. I would say that HeritageQuest lends itself more to history, social studies, research of genealogy or geography as it relates to human movement since it does have a section on the Census.

5. Sanborn Maps -- I chose Rapid City and started on Oct 1885, in that date the one building that existed and that is still in use was the bank on the corner of 7th street and Main. I then changed the date to Nov 1915 the year the Firehouse was built, that building is now a micro-brewery and restaurant and it's located on Main st and 6th street. In 1885 there was a building there but it was not a firehouse and it was much smaller, also I noticed the Elks theater existed by 1915 these are two of my favourite places downtown. I find it fascinating to be able to "go-back" in time with maps. I could probably spend hours looking at old maps and in my opinion it would be a very usable resource for students in the classroom for research or just to create more authenticity to any report or essay.