Comments on: Creating an Educational Follow Me Project

By: Meredith’s Post « teamblog

Meredith’s Post « teamblog — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:31:23 +0000

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By: Candace Garcia

Candace Garcia — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:25:41 +0000

This is such a wonderful project! What a powerful way to teach about the civil war.The fact that you can start within your own school is inspiring. It would be great to work your way up to a global project. There is so much technology being integrated into this project. It seems like it would be difficult to teach all the different rescources in a first grade classroom.

By: Thia Lutich

Thia Lutich — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:20:06 +0000

Next year I will be teaching 2nd grade and one of the Social Studies projects will be Flat Stanely. I dont know much about it but I do know that the main focus is friendly letter writing via pen and paper. I like how this student took a similar project and made is accessible to everyone. It seems that this would work really well for older students but not sure how it would work in a primary classroom.

By: M.Gonzalez

M.Gonzalez — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:28:16 +0000

Very amazing that a seven grader can do this type of work and use the technology in such way! For years we teachers have used teddy bears that travel to every student’s home for the weekend asking families to write their experiences in the class journal. This takes it to next level! Interesting idea to try.

By: KB

KB — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:51:31 +0000

Sounds like a great project, I teach preschool and I think if I were to try this I might start small like just on our campus (other grades) or maybe our district and see how well it goes love it for the older kids.

By: Ashley B

Ashley B — Fri, 06 May 2011 01:02:25 +0000

What a cool idea! I am already thinking about how I could do a Follow Me Project next year. I like the idea that the student mentioned at the end of the presentation about having each student take a stuffed animal home and write about what they did and take pictures. This could easily be turned into a Follow Me Project and would be a good way to engage the students. I also think this is the perfect way to introduce the kids to Web 2.0 tools. I have a lot to think about this summer as I start planning for next year!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:31:43 +0000

Kudos to the young lady who did this presentation! I would love to do this with my preschool class. Our state standards require us to teach geography; using the “Follow Me Project” would be an awesome way to teach my students about different terrains. I think any age group would benefit from this project!!

By: Jessica Boland

Jessica Boland — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:14:13 +0000

I was amazed with how articulate this young lady was. It definitely reminded me of the Flat Stanley projects that I have been a part of. I liked how this Follow Me project (Civil War Sallie) resulted in learning more about the Civil War Battles. Although I don’t think this project would suite me, it definitely got me thinking in how I could extend my students’ knowledge of the Civil War by conducting a battle project. I have begun researching the battles and will be having my students create a brochure or movie teaching others about the ins and outs of each particular battle we research.

By: Katie Gullette

Katie Gullette — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:10:29 +0000

We do something similar. Our class is presented with 8 different stuffed animals to be taken home as requested in writing (by student). Waiting a turn is learned in sharing our animal friends. when the studetn takes an animal home a writing tablet is also taken too. This way they have to write events of their evening with their little friend. Writing skills are improved, as writing in sequence about their evening AND then reading it back to us as a class. Kids enjoy this!

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:07:53 +0000

I really like this idea. I have classroom stuffed animals that my students can take home. With this idea in mind, I can have them write about their adventures in order of what happened. This is a great way to inspire writing and creative projects.