'Smithclass' site

I thought this site was really interesting and cool. I immediately went to click on the Australian project-Animalcasts because I'm a science major and it's the first thing that caught my eye. I thought it was really different how the students did this project. They were to research a particular animal, find out what continent it lives on and its location, what it eats and what sound it makes. Then, they were to voice record themselves talking about it and making their animal sound. So next to each one of their names was a click able voice recording of each of the students talking about their animal. I thought it was so innovative and creative. I'm sure they all went on the site and listened to all of their classmates recordings! So it's like a lesson in disguise. They had to research their own animal, which involved learning about it and then got to listen to each one of their classmates' animals also. I then clicked on another 'Animalcast' site. It was another class, Mrs. Lowe's students who also did a similar project but they did it in a 'Who am I?' format. Each student gave clues and animal sounds to guess what animal they were talking about. In both classes, it seemed like a really fun project. I'm going to look at this site a bit more and see what other interesting things they've done. Hopefully I can be this fun and creative when I teach!!