As always, I find myself struggling with how to organize and execute these bigger projects that involve more choice and variety...with such limited contact time with the kids. It takes me such a long time to create and execute projects. I know that the recent project was done with the 4th grade in TAC primarily, it is just that they were covering that information thematically in their homeroom class, too...I just find myself regularly feeling the battle to get enough time to explain the project, the options, teach and reteach the vocab and grammar and pronunciation and still let them get their creative license in...without getting TOO creative (read: hog wild with too much choice) and then put it all together,and then share it and evaluate it...with only twice a week to tackle this, at best, it is a months or two project. Which is not bad...just wondering how to keep the kids engaged and not sick of it when if gets spread out like that. Whew. Just talking in circles, I think. Sorry! I like the idea of expanding the variety of choices...just wondering how to limit and give choice at the same time, so you still shape the project enough that they get a lot out of it...what the "takeaway" is, in terms of language development.

Neat science site...Pam? Anyone?

Woah! I am a big huge fan of this! Yay! I like audioboo, and am excited to try QuickVoice!