Walking Tour Project in Brooklyn

I want to thank Ms. Sinckler a history teacher at Banneker for this project idea.
Walking Tour Project


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Part I

Choose two of the Walking tours from the book: Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, by Adrienne Onofri. Search for the book on Google Books; Barnes & Noble; visit the Brooklyn libraries.

Follow your selected tours and do the following and post on your blog :

1. Create a multimedia representation use ( Slideshare, MyPlick , authorStream and Joggle)
2. Maps: (Community Walk, (Entertonement---collection of sound bites, ---record your voice right on this site) Google Maps, Mapwing)
   
3. Photos and pictures (flickr, Picasa Web Albums)
   
4. Video (Vimeo, YouTube, Animoto )
   
5. Audio Tools: Podcasts are recordings distributed across the Internet as downloadable MP3 files (Audacity, Gcast, Blabberize) (Entertonement---collection of sound bites, ---record your voice right on this site)
6. Use your mobile device to take photographs, record voice and video commentary, jot down a few notes and post. Do you have a GPS locator on today’s mobile phones? If so, you will be allowed to explore your surroundings.
7. A list of Brooklyn Neighborhoods

Part II

1. 
   
   
   Make your own neighborhood walking tours (use the book as your example)
2. Record Narratives and Commentaries :
   Discuss the neighborhoods you chose for your tours
   Provide detailed instructions your tours
   Discuss in detail "Points of Interest" (see the book)
   Talk about your route you took ( it in the book titled "Route Summary" )
   Describe how the neighborhoods look
   Provide detailed instructions of sites t and their history
   
3. See Examples:
4. Radio Rookies
5. Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York

Fort Greene
Brooklyn Maps







Community Walk
Blabberize Cheat Sheet
How do I post audio/music to my blog?
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Technology...it's all around us...

1. View the "Technology...it's all around us..."

This is a quick video about the impact and  richness the top technology companies provide our lives. Enjoy the fine art of photographers, the electronic gadgets, the text messaging,the Web 2.0 salute, and always to all teachers who recognize that through technology, we, the digital immigrants, connect to our students, the digital natives

1. Create your own slide show about what impacts your "world". "What is...all round you?"
2. Create a web picture album
3. Follow the format of this slide show SlideShare Link
Slide Show Tools

Resources
Google News is a great resource

Web Picture Albums

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Michael Jackson Clip

1. Click on the web site
2. Read and view "Exclusive Clip: Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’"
3. Create a new post on your blog and write your response
4. Create a link to this site on your blog
5. What do you think? What are your thoughts? Your opinion? Make comparisons with other artists.
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7. About Fancast
8. It is due on Monday the 26th.

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Mixed Race Heritage

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