Technospud projects

Would you like your students to have the opportunity of joining in with a fun, colloborative international project to help create readers? Have a look at Technospud.

The current project is Salute to Suess.
This wiki is currently a finalist in the edublog awards. Here is the summary from the Edublogs site:
The “SALUTE TO SEUSS” wiki (hosted by Jennifer Wagner) is an online project for the teacher (who is teaching 4 to 13 year olds) to use within their classroom. Each teacher is encouraged to showcase their students’ participation by using a Web 2.0 tool — such as wiki, blog, photoshare, podcast, or more. For many of these teachers — this is their first time using these tools both for themselves and with their students!! There are 214 teachers from 45 U.S. States, 3 Canadian Provinces, and New Zealand participating. The final date of the project is not until mid-December — so the pages change daily as teachers post their projects. 2007 is the 50th Anniversary of the writing of “The Cat In The Hat” written by Dr. Seuss. To celebrate this milestone, this project also had many websites to visit, worksheets, standards, and activities to expand the project even more as the teacher wishes."

The worksheets, resources and weblinks themselves are amazing. Its also great to see Kiwi participation: see Puahue School powerpoint presentations.

A similar project took place earlier in the year about Charlotte's Web. The site contains some great ideas of activities for the book, as well as the contributions made by each participating school.

And coming up next year, will be a collaborative project on Prince Caspian. With the great interest in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the Prince Caspian movie due out next year, this could be a great opportunity to create readers using the web, in collaboration with classes around the world.