Please type your autobiographical essay in a Word document.
Then, please copy and paste it in the comments section of this post.
Then, use Bookr to turn the first and maybe second paragraph into a slideshow. Leave the url address in the comments section here, too.
Please type your ABC paragraph about the brain in a Word document, and then copy and paste it in the comments section of this post.
In addition, please read someone else’s paragraph and write a reply to it. You can write one or two sentences saying what you liked about it.
Please type your “ABC” response to this question in the comments section of this post.
Then, please respond to two-or-three of the “ABC” paragraphs written by your classmates.
Say:
Do you agree or disagree with their choice to climb or not to climb?
Why? (Please make a connection to your personal experience, a text, or a movie when you explain why).
Please go to Slideshare and register.
Then, click on “Upload” and find your PowerPoint file on the computer.
Next, copy the url of your PowerPoint and paste it in the comments section of this post.
If there is a problem uploading your presentation to Slideshare, please repeat this same process with these alternative sites:
Pick a link from Mr. Ferlazzo’s website that has a fair amount of text and use WebKlipper to demonstrate reading strategies with virtual post-it notes.
Place the url address of your annotated pages in the comments section of this post.
You might also want to pick a newspaper article on Natural Disasters from any of the following sources:
You may also pick one from another news source of your choice.
Take these natural disaster quizzes, and share in the comments section how you did and what were the three most interesting things you learned from them and why you found them interesting.
Play Disaster Watch and Stop Disasters. In the comments section of this post, write four things you learned from playing these games.
Complete this Internet Scavenger Hunt (the page calls it a Webquest) on Natural Disasters. You can write the answers on a Word document and then upload it to the Internet using crocodoc. Then paste the url address of your answers in the comments section.
After you have completed +this Internet Scavenger Hunt, please pick one natural disaster and create your own Hunt for other students to complete. Use different links and different questions. Create it in a Word document and use Crocodoc again.
Read The Good Side Of Disasters and this book review of The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.
What do you think are the two best things that come out of natural disasters and why did you choose those two?
We’ll be writing two-or-three essays related to Natural Disasters. After you type each of them, please use Crocodoc to upload them to the Internet and include the link in the comments section of this post.
Please take this quiz — How Prepared Are You If Disaster Strikes?.
How did you do? What was the most surprising piece of information you learned?
Take several of these Natural Disaster Quizzes.
Which was the hardest? Which was the easiest?
What was the most interesting thing you learned from them?
Go to Phreetings. You can search for a photo that would illustrate a short report you would write about a natural disaster. It’s basically a report on a virtual “postcard.”
Post the link in the comments section.
Choose a few sentences from one of the websites under Natural Disasters on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Then go to one of these online drawing sites:
Draw a picture of what the text makes you see in your mind. Include the text either in the drawing itself or next to the link you post in the comments section.
Go to the Natural Disasters section of Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Click on any of the links you find there that look interesting.
In the comments section here, write five things you learned and five questions about things you’d like to learn more about. Also, please include which website or websites you visited.
Please go to Survive Anything: Your Ultimate Guide To Disaster.
What are the three most interesting things you learned from that resource? Why was each one so interesting to you?
