ABC El Salvador Reaction Grid

The ABC now owns a virtual plot of land in Reaction Grid, which is an online world for students to learn in. The 7th grade and the Reaction Grid Extra- curricular club students are the first to explore and construct in ABC’s new virtual space. For the moment the focus is on creating 3D content that is representative of El Salvador and the ABC.

So far the kids have really enjoyed the work they have been doing, creating virtual content. Our task for this week to is to build the Art Gallery which will house examples of student work from our El Salvador Month Exposition.



Here is the link to our lessons so far.

HotChalk and NBC News

The Hotchalk Learning Environment offers educational benefits of linking up with NBC: access to a bank of news videos, online resource banks which can be contributed to and updated and the creation of online classes. The content is linked to American standards, that said the wealth raw footage and primary documents within documentaries, news reports, pictures, political cartoons both current and going back as far as 1920's, is broad. Transcripts are available for all videos. The point was made that delving into the primary sources and listening to historical figures speak work students are better able to form their own ideas and opinions. It would be worth our while to register individually and try it out in August(it is free right now, 30 days then we have to pay).

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Wrongly or rightly, I have included some screen shots of various resources below, from the website to pique people's interest in it.

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