April 19th

Attended class from home on Wimba. Had some technical issues in that I needed to reboot the computer at least four times before I could hear what was happening in the class. That was pretty frustrating. I thought I had done something wrong, but Don had the same problem a couple of times. I will keep my phone and the number handy when I use Wimba again. In this class, we looked at Google Docs, Jing and some other tools which were interesting. I have looked at these on-line but haven't produced a product.

I am going to post two websites for class in the cool sites part of the discussion page. The first is an organization that measures precipitation all over the country. You set up a rain gauge in your backyard and submit each day's precipitation. The site has lots of climate and weather information. It uses a community network to track local precipitation. You can record how much rain, snow, hail and sleet has fallen in a twenty four hour period. You can also look at rainfall in other locations and time periods. The site has some information on each states climate and topographical features. The link is: CoCoRahs



The other link is for believe it or not;  the CIA. It is a great source of information and facts for every country in the world. If you want to know what the chief religion of Cameroon, or the population of Taiwan, you can find it on this website. The site also has a kids page that has games and puzzles ( listed by grade levels ).
CIA World Factbook