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Janet Swistock

Color Trends + Palettes :: COLOURlovers - 0 views

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    Community network of contributors who share design trends, inspiration, palettes and patterns. Contributors are from all around the world. See how color is used in design and experience it yourself.
Janet Swistock

How To Use Colour In Logo Design To Effectively Communicate The Right Message | Logo De... - 0 views

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    The use of color in logo design. Great introduction for students and can easily lead into a design lesson. Reference students' own favorite logos and brands.
Karen Kohn

Miss Night's Marbles: I heard them say, love is the way - 0 views

  • a virtual exchange between our class, and a partner class overseas. For my 20 Canadian munchkins, we found a partner group in East Borneo, Indonesia. Both classes have created an imaginary friend, who attends our partner school. (For the curious, our imaginary friend is a little girl named Ella. She is 6 years old, she has blond hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. Her gender and name were decided by vote. Her age and appearance were drawn at random.) We use Twitter to ask research questions of our partners, and the answers allow us to write stories documenting our imaginary friend's experience in another country. Each child has a journal for the project, where they record things they have learned. It being kindergarten, the recording mostly takes the form of drawings. The children dictate text to go with their drawings, and then copy that text onto their pages. We are working on a Prezi presentation to share our learning with parents and other classes. We have made a video to teach our "Indonesia friends" about snow and how to get dressed for recess when it is very cold. When my team conceived of this project, I knew it was going to be cool. As mentioned in my previous post about Twitter in kindergarten, I love love LOVE that my students are building real connections with other children their own age. This project brought it to another level, by pushing them to imagine themselves in a completely different setting. (As we graph the often FIFTY degree difference in our daily temperatures, I often imagine MYSELF in a completely different setting, too!) I knew that this project was going to take us in unexpected directions, and there is no doubt that it has.
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    This is a great example of why Social Networking in the classroom works. Please visit this blog post. Miss Night, along with her fellow Kindergarten teachers in her school in Canada use social networking to communicate with another class in Indonesia. Night has come up with many lessons using the information the students gathered from their friends in Indonesia. Her students have learned so much from this contact and have even surprised her with some of their comments and questions. This has given me so many ideas! READ THE POST.
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    I also read this blog a few days ago. It is so inspirational! It really shows how even kindergarten students can participate in a social network with the help of their teacher.
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    I can't get over what a leap it is that teachers can communicate with classrooms in other countries. The possibilities are endless not just for learning but promoting intercultural understanding. Great post.
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