Using a simple iron to recycle can yield great products to reuse and reuse.

Ok, I am sorry – getting carried away here with posts. And, other than the iron and sewing machine, not much technology is used.  But, I don’t want to lose this  site and her ideas, so adding to my blog is a way to retain the information with my limited capacity for remembering things these days.

Great for a science projects on the environment, recycling, etc. Dianne shows how to make “stuff” out of fusing together recycled bags – with step-by- step details and links to more detailed information, if any one needs it.  Finally, here are some ideas about what to do with all the bags you get from everywhere.  One lady admitted she raided the box that contains used bags at the grocery store. I don’t see much harm in that.  What would they charge someone with if she was reported “stealing” already used bags that were going to be recycled anyway.

Really, I guess that you recycling the bags would be the same as them recycling bags. The outcome is the same, the bags are re-used.

Check Dianne Faw’s crafty blog out for more fun ideas that can be linked to science and the environment.  This would be a great summer project for enrichment as well that could cover multiple learning objectives:  Weight of bags, heat of iron, measurements, what happens when plastic melts, why does it melt, what is the difference between plastic bags and material bags,  how does it help the environment?   I am sure your students can come up with even more ideas and questions to ask.

So, I couldn’t resist adding this site today – even though I already posted once.  One of the challenges that teachers face today is making sure that students use copyright safe images.  When I do workshops, I like to remind teachers that the environment is different today than it was pre-Internet, Web 2.0, YouTube days.  Back in the day, students might have copied some images off the Net and printed them out for their science fair project and received accolades from the teacher, and the judges at the science fair. Even when the student advanced to nationals, the copied images were not posted to the Internet for the world to see – and judge as copyright breaches.  Even using cute little Mickey Mouse on a poster board didn’t cause financial risk for the teachers or students.

But, today, in contrast, everything is on the Net – and accessible.  The difference is, however, that students are posting their school work to the Internet for all to see.  So, if student work is presented on a wiki, or a blog, or Voice Thread, the whole world will be able to see the copyright infringement, and the big guns (like Disney), will go after all concerned – student, teacher, school, district.

Not a situation you want to face.  So, enter Richard Byrne in his blogpost in Free Technology for Teachers.  Our philosophies so agree – anything teachers can get for free is good.  In the case of technology and Web 2.0, you get a lot more than you pay for.

Today, his post will rescue you from student or teacher image copyright infringement: 9 Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images Save this site and rest easy this year.

The bad news is that at this point, I can’t figure out why this way would be better. Wait, I have it.  I don’t have to remove the link and add the new one and then put the old one in an archive each time that I post. The blog does that for me.

So, onward and upward to great sites each day.

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1. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by reading the Daily Post.
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