Voice Thread

Just a trial of Voice Thread

Blogging in the Classroom

When searching on the web, I came across this video about blogging in the elementary school classroom.  When watching it I realized those doubts I had about using blogging with in my 3rd grade classroom, started to subside a little.  This teacher puts a lot in to perspective and makes me realize that it is possible.  I thought some of my fellow teachers might like watching it as well.

Trying it out

WEEBLY....it's actually really cool!!!  I wanted to try this for next year as a basic website for my class for next year, thus the reason for the name change.  My thought for this site is to keep it very basic for now to get used to it.  I would like to put information for my parents on this site so that they could just pop on our website and see what is going on in out class.  This is just a start but I could definitely see myself using this for next year!!!

Weebly???

So I was looking at some of the weebly's that Judy put on our course work for class six.  I came across Christina's Weebly.  I actually think I could see this being a great way to use the weebly.  She has been posting all her papers for certain course on the weebly.  A great place to put all your important work from undergrad and or grad school!!!

Voice Thread...Literacy Project???

Alright, so I am sitting here thinking about my literacy project.  I am thinking that my students are starting poetry and I thought it would be a great idea for my students to start with an acrostic poem using their names.  I will them have them illustrate their poem too, and record it using voice thread!  I think that they will really enjoy this!!  Any other thoughts if this is a good idea??  I really want to make sure it comes out great!!!

Digital Storytelling....what I would change.

After looking at my story Super Brain, I have realized if I was to do it again, one thing I need to work on is trying to keep my mouth away from the microphone.  I am sure this is something I would have to remind my own students of as well!  Live and learn right!!

Super Brain....Digital Storytelling

My class and I have been working on telling stories that have a problem and solution with in them.  We have also been working on making sure the character or characters really come alive in our stories.  For my digital story I wanted to work with my class to incorporate all those aspects in our story.  We worked together as a class to create the story of Super Brain, and then as you can tell my class created all the illustrations for our story.   The idea of the story started from one of the boys in my class and then it all just came together from there.  If you think about it the story is very similar to Superman.  Overall, I felt our story came out well and my class loved doing it together.  I am thinking about using this feature of technology again when my students do their Diary of a ....books for our Content Area writing unit.  That time I will have them create their own narration and be the narrator of their story.

Diigo, Diigo, Diigo I LOVE YOU!!!

OK so MY LOVELY DIIGO is still a work in process, and I would love to figure out how to put things in lists to make it more organized, but overall I really do love it!!  to have all my resources in one place is great!!!  I am huge fan of pinterest, so this came so easy to me!!!  Please follow my diigo!!!

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P.S. If anyone can teach me how to put things in to list I would OWE you big time!!!

Debbie Diller

I know how much this class loves Debbie Diller!!!  So I was on Pinterest and happened to stumble upon her blog!!!  I thought I would post it on my page, so all of you could go and look at it!!!  I have already found some great things just from perusing the blog a little!!!  I think I am in LOVE!!!

Story, Story, STORYBIRD!!!

Well once again my school is not in session!!  We are hoping to go back to school tomorrow!!  Please all cross your fingers, because right now I have played around with way to many story apps for our projects!!  I was sitting here today and decided hey what the heck let me try this whole STORYBIRD thing!!  I did it and I think it's pretty cool!!


Thank you Mari Beth for helping me embedded this!!!!

I definitely could see myself using this in my classroom , to help my students that have difficulties getting ideas flowing for writing.  We have always had those students who struggle to get an idea started on their own.  I could see Storybird being a huge help with that.  Now that they would have the pictures there for them, I think it could be a great tool to help guide a student who is struggling.

Digital Story

So I am all about trying new things this weekend!!!  I really thought that I would just attempt to make a silly move!!!  This is what I came up with now!!!  I was totally just playing around and literally made up the story out of now where!!!  I am not going to lie this one too is also really cool!!!

Anyone else try this yet???  What are you thoughts????

Pup Talk

While being trapped in my house I figured I would decide to do some school work.  So I went through our class notes and decided to peruse some websites.  I went on to the PBS Kids website and found the game Martha Speaks PUP TALK.  So of course I had to try it out!!!  I loved it!!  It may not be the most beneficial for my third graders, but I thought definitely for younger grades.  Also there are years that I have lower students.  I loved that it lets you record your own voice to the story.  I also like that is stresses that a story must have a beginning, middle, and end.  What a great way to reinforce comprehension, yet allow your students to express their creativity!!!

First Voki

Not sure I did this right, but I figured it was worth a shot!!!

Voki 2

Went to go sign up for a Voki account, do you really only get a free 15 days???  I am confused can anyone help me out with this???

Voki

OK, so my personal opinion of these are that they are great!!  I am going to try one my classroom tomorrow with just saying what the students need to do to start their day!!!  I think they are going to love it!!  I loved the way Taini used in her classroom as a way to go over the school rules!!  I am thinking about using this as my possible method for my literacy project!!!

Animoto Project

After thinking about this project, I thought the best way to attack it would to be to do something that would be very beneficial in my classroom.  Right now my class is just starting plane figures in math.  This is one of my favorite topics, however there is a ton of vocabulary.  I would use my animoto at the beginning and end of the unit to help review vocabulary for my students.  I think it would be a great way for my students to practice remembering all that vocabulary!!  I could even see myself making a second video to go along with this unit going over the vocabulary with angles, vertices, etc!!!

Kid Blog

OK, so tonight after hanging curtains in my living room I decided to do a little school work.  So for tonight I decided to make my way onto the Kid Blog website!!  I have heard so much about this website and had to see what it was all about.  So after some perusing of the website, I must admit I am still scared of the whole idea of allowing my third graders to have a blog.  You can call me old fashion, but the thought of being in control of monitoring what students or others will post on their blogs scared me so much.  Also, it scares me to have to be in charge of what my students are posting too.

So since I was feeling that way, I figured my next step to better understand this great technology tool was to go onto You Tube and see if I could find a video to better explain this great site!!!

Although this is a little dated, it ended up making me feel a little more comfortable about the idea of using Kid Blog within my own classroom!!  :)

What are your thoughts?????