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????