This morning while plowing through my incoming messages I came across an email from a fellow Google Certified Teacher; Darren Cannell, an assistant principal in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada. In his email he explained that he and his family will be embarking on a worldwide trip, traveling to 35 countries starting in September, and that as part of his travels, his 2nd grade son will be blogging about it.
- Image by woody1778a via Flickr
I checked out his son’s blog and it looks promising:
http://daxjournal.darrencannell.com
If you want to get really jealous, just check out the Google map and calendar, then you will see all of their destinations. I saw in the video section that they have used the TripAdvisor’s new TripWow tool that makes really cool videos from your photos.
I think it would be a great idea for your classroom to follow this young student as he travels the globe this winter, part of his schooling grade is to participate in comments on his blog — so get connected and be part of a cool project.
How can you use school technology to track this world traveling second grader?
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Thanks Brad for the post.
My Son would love to have some students from your area of the world following him as he comments on the sights…
For me the most exciting part of this venture my family will be starting in September is the global community in which my son will participate as he travels. He has classes which are following him and then hopefully talking to each other, so far he has classrooms from three countries.
If by chance we are in the same community or if classes would like to guest blog on his blog we would love to invite those types of projects or suggestions.
D. Cannell