The above design is the 2009 National winner of the Doodle 4 Google contest.  Click on the picture above.  It will take you to the Doodle 4 Google website where you can view other winners and read all about contest rules and prizes.  If you get bored this summer, you can play around with your own google doodle and possibly enter the contest next year. The contest usually opens in March.  Check back to see what the theme for next year will be.  Who knows, maybe a White Oak student will be next year’s winner.

Students did a great job last week creating games to review their 30 technology terms.  View the short video captured with Mrs. Cranford’s flip video and hosted on http://www.schooltube.com to see the students’ excitement.  When the year winds down and time allows, I will try to post the games the students created. I also created a jeopardy game using http://jeopardylabs.com to review some technology facts.  The game can be found under Student Websites called Technology Jeopardy.  The students are having a great time playing this week.  My electrical engineer husband built a light box with a green, red, and yellow light with clickers so we could play with three teams.  Each member of the winning team gets to put their name on a ticket for a drawing.  Each correct answer also wins that student a ticket.  At the end of the period, a student draws one ticket and the winner leaves with a racquetball from Walmart.  All the intermediate students love racquetballs because they use them to play wall ball against the brick on the playground.

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This week students will be grouped into teams of three to four students.  Each group will be responsible for creating a technology term  game to review the 30 technology words that are on our Tool Shed wall.  The students will play the games next week as time allows.  Students may choose one of the game formats listed at http://www.education-world.com/a_special/vocabulary or come up with their own.

The resulting slide shows from the “Get to Know My Class”  project are posted for everyone to enjoy.  The students completed their slide with their avatar, wordart of their name, and text boxes of their descriptive words and uploaded them using google docs.  A huge thank you goes out to Mr. Floyd for taking such good care of us and setting up google accounts for all the Intermediate School students.