Thing 22

I could not stop! Once I started looking at all these great resources I did not want to miss anything- so I spent quite some time looking at all of it. The two that I know that I will use are the Global Gateway and Lulu Publishing.
This year I participated in an International Wiki project and my students loved it. I was anxious to find something to continue into next year that would incorporate other students from around the world. When I saw the Global Gateway I was immediately interested. It is a site that allows people to list their school, age groups of the children and any interest that they have for connecting with other schools. I think that this may be a great site for me to use when trying to find us some other students to collaborate with next year.
The second site that I spent a large amount of time exploring was Lulu Publishing. How exciting would it be for my students to publish a real book? I think that would be great for them. I have some fifth graders that love to write and I am going to email them and tell them about this site. I have uploaded a story that one of my students wrote this spring and am going to publish it on the sandbox site. I look forward to using this tool a lot next year!