Safe blogs becoming a part of school: Teachers suggest topic; kids open up online.

This article is about kids using the blog in a classroom. We have talked about kids using blogs in a classroom setting and this is the first article I have come across that discusses that. By the teachers giving the students a topic they can expand their knowledge by seeing what other students are saying about that same topic.

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Egg hunt helps teach technology

This article is about a school doing an egg hunt and using GPS to locate the eggs. According to Ryan Miller, the instrunctional technology coordinator for the Orange County Schools district. GPS works by sending a signal to three satellites, which then determine the latitude and longitude coordinates according to the time it takes for the signal to travel back, it's accurate to about 12 to 20 feet. The first and fifth grade students of the school got to use the GPS systems to locate the eggs then answer a question about spring.

I thought that this article was really interesting. It was very short but still I would never have thought to use a GPS that way. I think that the teachers were very smart to team up the younger and older kids and let them have at finding the eggs.

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