Module 9 - Scootle- Something for everyone!

'Did you know Mum that God is watching you? and he made everything!'
This statement accompanied the bath time ritual for my six year old.
' yes-apparently so' I replied.
In my head I suddenly thought, 'did God really see me reverse into my neighbour's parked car the other night as I was negotiating up hill reverse handbrake usage issues of the 'you parked too close to me in the dark kind?
If he did see me, he sure helps out in strange ways.....so that's why my in-laws didn't rush out onto the front balcony to see what was the commotion? (God made CSI- Miami!)and you know..God did make that rule....less then 5km/h = no damage -at least not to their car- thanks be to God...my new bumper well that's a different story..)

'and Mum did you know... that Jesus died?'
(Obviously my school fees are going towards something...)
'Yes and that's why we have Easter' I replied.
Which of course led onto the next question ' so does Jesus die every year' closely followed by 'why did Jesus go to heaven with God if he wasn't really dead?
Good question!
So I headed off to look up scootle (an educational website full of interactive learning objects a.k.a. games amongst other stuff) to see what 'in the name of Jesus' was in the resource list to deal with such questions.

I am a great fan of 'Scootle' a fab resource! Yes I have used a number of the learning objects previously with my juniors and look forward to trying a few out on my 9 Commerce class for their next topic 'starting a business' (run a funky cafe/fish shop/ muffin bakery etc)

Anyway the top of my Scootle pick! is 'I Think - Is there a Creator?' Please check it out on the Scootle site - its great! A short film with voice-overs by 5-7 years olds discussing who/what is the Creator and what s/he created. Accompanied by slide show of appropriate paintings and drawings. Fantastic!

I tried to help you out with viewing but alas....no....(see below)

N.B. Jane's helpdesk: I tried to upload it however this resulted in an error.
Why? because google videos is discontinuing uploads to blogger.
Did you know that? That's why there is an error message when you try?
How do you get around it? Join you-tube - upload your video then copy the embed code and paste in the edit html window in your blog!
Yes it does work however my Scootle pick is still under copyright- educational bodies excepted therefore it's not my content and I don't have permission to upload it to you-tube or blogger in a public forum!! (See J.M. - I have learned something!)

Anyway with the in-laws and other family members jaunting around sunny Greece what better way to check out their travelling adventures then with facebook . Wait until those photos are published...
While at home - what teenager hasn't joined?
As a parent- be careful- join facebook yourself and be friends with your kids so you can check out their pages and who their friends are- be cyber savvy and smart.
In the classroom? I don't see there's a place for it. Create a blog, journal or forum to track diaries/opinions - more collaborative and topical.

Twitter - if you got the time and the inclination why not? It's like subscribing to a news paper but you're only interested in the sport section. Well you'd receive updates on headlines, horoscope and new recipes, employment and housing etc...I don't want all that! It would be better if the sport columnist had a RSS feed and you subscribe to that to just get that update. Personally for me -twitter- I can't be bothered and quite frankly too time poor to sift through the distinct possibility of way too much info!