Connected Learning

Another outstanding Common Craft video

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MyHeritage.com offers an on-line family tree creation package which allows you and your students to develop and create visual family trees and invite other family members to participate.

Find that video on YouTube which would be perfect for the classroom, but alas it is blocked by various firewalls? Enter vconvert.net. It allows you to save a YouTube video to your desktop in various formats. Excellent!

The Social networking phenomenon went to primary school this week when the Disney Corporation bought the newly successful Club Penguin for a few hundred million dollars.

From the Club Penguin site:

“Chatting and gaming are the two most popular online activities for kids, yet most virtual worlds are focused on an older audience. We wanted to create a fun, online world that we’d be comfortable letting our own kids visit.”

So where will social networking end, or rather, when will it enter your classroom as a viable way?

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