Follow Me Project

Follow Me Project

Sarah Beeghley

&

Brandon Lutz

History

Morpheus Fortuna

Birth

Keystones Brainstorm: Idea is re-born with a web 2.0 twist

Stuffed animal that travels...

• Wikispace
• Blog
• Flickr Site

Morpheus Travels starting Sept. 2007

(http://morpheusfortuna.wikispaces.com/)

Morpheus Details

Morpheus Travels in PA

Visits Keystone Teachers

Stay for 10 days

Learns about classrooms

Morpheus Check List

* Please Twitter when Morpheus arrives at your school, via Morpheus Twitter (@MorpheusFortuna)

* Please post at least 5 pictures of Morpheus onto Flickr

* Please have one picture of Morpheus with your school sign

* Please post to Morpheus blog at least 5 times

* Please Twitter at least 5 times when you have Morpheus

* Please link your class link/wiki to the navigation of the Morpheus wiki

* Try try to setup a Video conference with a school that has had Morpheus

* Please Twitter when Morpheus leaves your school

Civil War Sallie

Sallie’s Story

•Donated Boyds Bears

•Created for 2009 Middle School Computer Fair

•Traveling around looking for Civil War Battlefields, museums, and schools learning about the Civil War

•Mrs. B had her twice

•Comes with a manual to show you how to blog, twitter, and Flickr

•Also has memorabilia from the places she has been

Travels

•Andersonville Prison

•Clara Baton home in Glen Echo, Maryland

•Ford’s Theater

•Bull Run

•Clara Barton Birthplace in New Oxford, Massachusetts

Awards / Presentations:

•1st place at the Pa State Middle School Computer Fair in the Web Page Design Category

•Edublog award

•PETE&C 2009

•NECC in Washington D.C.

•Civil War Preservation Trust

•Classroom 2.0

•Middle States Council of Social Studies

Benefits

• Better writing
• Meet people
• Seen things that no one has ever seen
• Protected by the Username of Civil War Sallie

http://www.civilwarsallie.com

The Birth of...

The

Follow Me Project

Inspired by...

Sarah & Family

What is Follow Me Project?

• A group of stuffed animals that travel the globe!

• Sharing adventures usinig web 2.0 tools such as Wikis, Blogs, Pictures sites and more!

• Allows teachers. students, familes & organizations to share what they are doing with the world.

• Goal of Follow Me is to foster collaboration amongst unique groups of people.

• A group of people to collaborate with and share ideas.

Who can create a follow me?

• Families
• Companies
• Organizations
• Classrooms

Where do they travel?

With in...

• family
• Classrooms
• Schools
• Districts
• States
• USA
• The World

The Cousins

• All projects get showcased on the follow me wiki
• Great place for everyone to see what each project is doing
• Get more projects!

The group

Meetings as needed to promote follow me

Help eachother with projects

Find collaboration oppotunities

Build follow me community

Get more projects

How to create

your own:

Birth of Your Project

• Brainstorm with your class, family, or organization

• Decide on a theme or topic for your project

• Have a name selected before you go out

• Purchase a stuffed animal or object, or find a sponsor

• Start building your wiki

Setup Web Presence

• Story Board

• Create your wiki

• Decide what web 2.0 tools to use

• Set rules for your project

Ideas for Teachers

* Promote Student Writing

o Blogs

o Daily Journals

o Create books for your project

* Enhance social studies/science lessons

o Discover countries your project has visited

o Look at the ecosystems where your project has traveled

* Creates unique opportunities for math enrichment

o How far has your project traveled?

o How many hours has your project been on the road?

o What is the annual cost of the project?

* Incorporates technology seamlessly into your classroom

o Video Conferencing

o Blogs

o Updating wikispaces

* Anything else you can think of!

Collaborating and Integrating

• Skype
• iChat (Mac)
• Google Video
• Other Video conferencing

Overcoming barriers to implementing:

• Start small
• Start project in your classroom
• Start with people in your PLN

How did it get started?

Warren the Mouse

o Stuffed Mouse

o Paper Note book

o Disposable camera

Concept hibernates for 6 years

Morpheus Commercial

Morpheus Blog:

http://followmorpheusfortuna.blogspot.com/

Presenters:

* Encourages group collaboration within the classroom on a variety of topics

o Scrapbooking

o Digital Media projects

o Songs

o Theater performances

http://followme.wikispaces.com/