5th grade begins to study the U.S. Civil War

One of my 5th grade classes came in and they used our new Mac books and created US Civil War projects on Bookr. They had just started the Civil War unit and had not completed learning about this period of time. THEY LOVED IT!!! THEIR TEACHER LOVED IT! When it was time to go, they didn't want to because they were having fun and learning! It was truly one of the highlights of my week!

Here are some of the projects:

U.S. Civil War by Sherry / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Samantha / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Dustin / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Jose / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Adrian M/ Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by David / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Alondra / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Sofie / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Victoria / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Edder / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Cesar / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Brian /Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Jade / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Sonia / Cashiola

U.S. Civil war, wonders and photos of Ray House by Alyssa / Cashiola

U.S. Civil War by Samantha F. / Cashiola

More Bookr Projects

Students LOVE working on Bookr projects creating a digital book by adding text to Flicker creative commons pictures.

Ocean by Ethan

Habitats by Cassandra - Guykens

Habitat by Pablo - Guykens

Biomes - By Kristen - Guykens

Cheetas! by Arthur - Ms. Guykens

Habitats by Jose - Guykens

Biomes - By Monica - Ms. Guykens

HABITATS by Crystal - Ms. Guykens

Life cycle by Giselle - Muske

Life cycle - by Miranda - Muske

Habitats by Josalynn- Muske

Life Cycle by Madison- Muske

Habitats - BY MISS LOVE (created by one of our teachers!)

Bookr projects - Garza

4th grade students from Ms. Garza's class worked on a Bookr project about habitats using our new mac computers. They created digital books adding their text to pictures from Flickr creative commons.
They only worked on this for 1 class period.
I'm very proud of their efforts!


Deserts by Rachel - Garza

Desert Homes by Emilio

Desert habitat by Juan

Desert - by Jose - Garza

Desret by Romario

Animals habytat by Ramon

Desert by Luis - Garza

Thing #11.5 Evaluation

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
I REALLY enjoyed Bookr and Glogster. I've become almost addicted to Facebook. Slideshare will also be useful!

2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?

11.5 things has forced me to look at new web apps that are available, many of them interesting, some useful, and a few that are too cumbersome to use, or not what I want to spend time working on. But, the new cool stuff is waaay cool, and I want to show students and teachers some of the great and awesome things they can do with these applications.

3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
Slideshare, Glogster, and Bookr were some things that I had not heard of. I also enjoyed exploring the videos. I think that the students will really like Glogster and Bookr. I think that the teachers will like Slideshare and Bookr.

4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
I think that you all did a great job of getting this going and encouraging so many educators to become more aware of "bleeding edge" technology and applications. Thanks for all of your hard work!!!