Most Popular Videogame Now: Call of Duty

Use the Call of Duty Wiki to find out more about the videogame Call of Duty.

Challenge: Interview students and ask them what they like most about the game. Create a machimima or movie evaluating Call of Duty.

EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS Student Video Series

Challenge: Interview someone who is from a different country or lived for a while in a different country and create a short movie. Ask questions about their culture, their environment, and their icons. Find out what you should see if you visit that country. Upload the movie to your blog and to the series blog.

Digital Storytelling

Find three digital stories on this website that you like and link or embed them to your blog. Explain what you like about each story and post your analysis to your blog.

Challenge: Create your own digital story and submit it to a digital story website or contest. Post your digital story on you blog and ask to post a comment to your blog.

Connect With The World Using ePals

Research ePals and evaluate the website. Figure out how to set up an ePal account and get your parents permission. Become ePals with two different people in two different countries. Introduce yourself to your ePal and communicate a minimum of once a week. Post what you are learning from your ePals about their culture and country on your blog. Post a Google Earth Map showing where your epals live. Create a Venn Diagram comparing yourself to your ePal, how are you alike and how are you different.

History Online Game: Discover Babylon

Try this history game and post to your blog what you discover about writing, math, literature and law form playing the game. Create a Wordle about Liberty and post it to your blog.




Challenge: Using the cool Bamboo Tools create several posters about Liberty and post them to your blog. Share this tool with a teacher and post one of their creations.

Create Your Own Voki Characters

Research a historical figure that you admire and learn about that person and their story. Pretend you are a descendant of that historical figure and create your own Voki character telling us a little about that person. Post your Voki to your blog. Add further details about the historical figure you chose and explain why you admire that person.



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Challenge: Share your Voki and the Voki website with a teacher. Ask the teacher to create a Voki and post a copy of it to your blog. Ask the teacher to design a lesson where Vokis could be used and post the lesson to your blog.

History Online Game: Liberty

Play Liberty and blog about what you learned about the price of liberty from playing the game. Explain in a rap or poem or song what liberty means to you.

Challenge: Share this website with a teacher. Ask them to analyze the game with you. Post the strengths and weaknesses to the game on your blog.