Love my Web2.0 World

Another connection is made! Miss M who writes the Eternal Learning of the Open Mind blog saw my VoiceThread with the math problem for the Gr. 2 class in Arizona. She took her question in a whole new direction and created this delightful math question using Animoto.

Problem Solving

On Twitter today someone pointed me to The Teacher's Life on YouTube.  This teacher of Gr. 2 students is asking people to send his class math problems to solve.  I decided to have a little fun and created the VoiceThread problem below.

For a clearer view go to VoiceThread.

Fast forward to Monday morning. When I checked my email there was a lovely reply from the Math teacher:
"Ohhhhh this is perfect.... thanks so much for taking the time to do this!
They will love it:) ". This made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

On a little ego trip I re-visited the VoiceThread I had created and lo and behold a teacher in Indonesia had already located the VoiceThread and left a comment,
"Hi grade 2 in AZ. Good luck with this problem. Maybe our gr. 2 kids can give you some problems. I'll ask them tomorrow. We live in Indonesia and go to Jakarta International School. Look that up on the map."

Now how cool is that? A small amount of playtime on my part produced a connection between two classes half a world away from each other. I love web2.0!

Math/Tech blog

It's always a pleasure to come across a fresh new blog. This one offers a blend of math and information literacy at the k-8 level.
NJ Tech Teacher Musings