Now that I've had success with one picture being added, I'm going to try another.

Here's a cute picture from when we did volcanoes.

Here's one on cause and effect.
http://voicethread.com/#q+reading.b49875

I found another vodcast that a I liked and could be used with third graders. This one is about making predictions and inferences.
http://voicethread.com/#q+reading.b44299

http://voicethread.com/#q+reading.b128425.i669266
We found a vodcast that had a retelling and pictures about the Titanic disaster. I liked this video vodcast because in our nonfiction unit in third grade, we learn about the Titanic. This has young students pointing out different features of the various Titanic slides, and I think that my third graders would really relate to them.

http://delicious.com/lbejian

Here is a link to my delicious web site. This was actually easier than I thought it would be. It helps to remember that little icons, like the globe, help you create the link. Thanks Nicole! I can see how I would use this site to find more interesting topics for third grade. I think that I would more likely use the site for myself, and with my colleagues, rather than with my class. Again, it feel like a little too much freedom for elementary students. Back to finding more topics for third grade. When I began to search the delicious site, I ended up finding a lot of interesting information. Icould see how I could lose several hours following different topics. That's the problem with searching, you can become completely distracted.
On a different topic, we had a meeting about the new Ditson web site yesterday, and I recognized some things that we learned in this class. There is one site where you go to write the article, and then a publisher checks the article on the site, makes any changes necessary, and publishes the article. The Commmon Craft guy would have been happy, no more messy emails.

I like the idea of being able to share documents between many people. Starting a story, and letting each person add a line to the story is a lot of fun. You could do that in third grade by letting the students take turns using the computers available in the room. I think I would still be a bit afraid to have students add to a story from home. It feels like you don't have enough control. Another way I could use google docs in my classroom would be for expanding sentences. I could enter a very simple sentence, and ask the students to add adjectives and adverbs to make the sentence more complex and exciting.