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.