Teacher Connceted/ Kidspiration, Inspiration

Using the tools Kidspiration and Inspiration were really fun. It was a really cool interactive way to make lessons or sort out activites to help teach the students. I really had a fun time putting the puzzle of America together. I think students really really learn from this because they could soon recognize every state and then realize which states would fit next to each each state to create the puzzle. I also had a fun time mind mapping, it helped me explore lots of ideas. In inspiration I did a project where you have a person, put them in different elements, decide which clothes your person should wear in that element and what they should bring with them, ie a flashlight for the forest at night, a coat for going to Antarctica etc.
The movie this week was Teacher Connected, it was another video similar to the "Did you know?" video stating facts about other countries vs America and technology. It is interesting to hear that China will soon be the number one English speaking country in the World. At the same time though, it's OK because America wasn't meant to have only one language, it was meant to be a diverse country full of all races/languages/religions. One thing that I really found alarming though was that Myspace could be the 12th largest country in the World with all it's users, crazy! It's true though, technology has come so far, people everywhere in the World could be using the same network at the same time, and we have technology that can handle that! Crazy!