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So, I'm officially Kate Marshall, but I grew up as Katie McKenna. My real name is Katherine Ruth Mckenna actually, but I was only called that by my parents if I was in trouble, for example, "Katherine Ruth Mckenna get down these stairs now!" Most of the time they called me Katie. Of course, that would be way to complicated now that I teach 4th grade in Green Acres with Katie McDermott.

I did use the Endagered Tree Octopus this year with my class. I put it up on my blog and asked them to critique the site. These were typical comments:

//**"When i was reading about Tree Octopuses one thing i found out was that they can grow up to 30-33 inches i learned a lot!!!!!!"

"I thought that it was a very interesting page and i thought that it gave so much info like how we can help and why they are endangered and a lot of basic facts. I showed this page to my dad and said "do you believe it is real" and i said yes of course, but at first i wasn't so sure."

"At first I didn't think the tree octopus was real because I had never heard of it before. Until, I googled it."**//

Only one kid figured it out, and here is how:


 * //"//**//**This site is an internet hoax, because I checked at the Wikipedia."**//

I followed up with another site and the kids were still fooled. Check it out:

This one is truly amazing-

I will use some of the other ones you gave us here and do more directed lessons next year.