Portland Chinese Garden

http://www.portlandchinesegarden.org/awakening/orchids/info/C1/

Web2.0 Tools

Here's a link to some great Web2.0 tools. Please get with your "dancing partner" and choose any one of these tools to work with, and then using that tool please explain the 6 Score Reporting Categories the State of Oregon will use to measure your reading prowess on October 29th.

You can either include the link to your web2.0 tool on your TumblrBlog or (if you are very brave) you may embed the code into your blog.

http://pdc.oetc.org/index.php

Essential Skills

Read and Interpret at Lexile Level 1200+

Write: Technically, Imaginatively, & Persuasively

Speak and Present Publicly

Apply Mathematics Outside the Box

Live Globally-Aware & Community-Involved

Adapt and Innovate with Technology

Think Critically and Analytically
(Scientific Inquiry & Problem Solving)

Communicate and Collaborate Effectively

Other 21st Century Learning Videos

Here are some other options for quotes or ideas for your videos.

http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/Other+presentations

Literary Elements PPT

Here is a link to download the boring version of the literary elements PowerPoint. Have fun dressing it up and adding a hyperlinked table of contents! (when you click once on the link, it will automatically download to your desktop as a .ppt file).

BoringLE.ppt

Johnny the Bagger Assignment

Please watch the movie (link below) and write a 1/2 to 2 page story about a similar (fictional) inspiring story.

http://www.stservicemovie.com/

The Brain on Basketball

Try clicking on these two mind-benders (and you can change the number at the end for other variations on the theme).

1. Please count the number of times the team in WHITE passes the basketball.
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html

and

2. Something in this photo will CHANGE over the course of the video. Can you catch it?
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/5.html