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Hey guys…we got some important follow up stuff to do.

• Thank you letters.
• Thank you postcards
• And I’d like to make a couple of video vignettes so kids understand next years trip a little better.
• I need tons of jpegs in order to make a giant poster
• You need to do the final survey
• And anything else that you can think of…

Please go here for the list of everybody to be thanked.  Here’s the online link for survey monkey.   And a final reminder to you.  Come in and sign up and pick up the post cards in Mr. Woods room.  Please don’t lose steam on this – a lot of people did a lot of good things for us.  We owe them a Thank You!

And I wouldn’t mind having a short video vignette with somebody’s parents – that would help as well.  If anybody’s mom and dad are interested…please let me know.  These videos will be less than five minutes long.  Touch a topic and set it up in a Blend Space.

Please make this stuff happen – I’d like to wind it all up by Friday.

Thanks.  Mr Wood

Finally – all those video interviews over the past two years – I hope you enjoy them – we’ve had some great times in D.C. over the years.

Thank you specifically to our 2013 and 2014 travelers for putting up with all the questions.

Hope you all have a wonderful 2015!

Below are listed various Blendspace example.  I’ll provide the link and post a bit about the reason for, and guidelines surrounding each one.  Please contact me if you have any questions concerning Blendspace.  I think it is probably the best website I’ve come across for organization of units.  Its best feature by far, its just soooooo simple to use.

1 – Single Issue Blendspace – Third World Poverty -Women, Education, and Microcredit

This is probably one of the best uses for blendspace program.  You have a multi-faceted issue that you want to expose students to.  This topic includes you-tube videos, audio podcasts, websites and news.  Lay it out with an introduction, drop in the links and news stores and videos.  You may drop in any assignments as well in pdf form, that might better move you through the blendspace production.  The link above is for an Economics Unit on Third world Micro financing and the education of women.

2 – Student Blendspace creation – Police Brutality in the USA

In this blendspace, I have provided student guidelines for their own blendspace assignment.  This is easily done by going to the Text box and typing up directions for each of the blendspace boxes.  Students will follow guidelines and create their own product, which can be turned in to me – by sending the link only.  This assignment was inspired by the events of Ferguson and NYC.  Student choose an incident (their choice) which involves the police in what they interpret as an unjust action with an private citizen.  While they need to follow guidelines of how the project is created – the content is theres.

3 – Combining Camtasia and Blendspace – Close Up Washington

An interesting way to present blendspace is by creating a Camtasia video that walks the viewer through the Blendspace.  This takes a little more work; in order to create the video – but the blendspace production is itself the same as the other two above…and really simple to create.  We travel to Washington DC each for Close Up.  My video is an effort to pull viewers into the Blendspace production.   Please go here for the walk through video..