Hat Day Animoto

Some of our memories captured in Animoto style :)

Field Trip Animoto

Here's another Animoto. This one is from our field trip from Friday to Flander's Nature Center :)


 

Voki ME!

My Voki reflection on all this awesome course content!

Comic Fun!

I found Make Beliefs Comix on Sara's blog. When i saw this I knew I had to introduce my students to it. Right now as a writing center I cut out comics from the newspaper and black them out. I then illuminate the comic strips for students to write in their own thought bubbles for the characters. Sometimes these comics can be too long or not kid appropriate scenarios.  With this site, kids can create their own comic digitally! I love it! Thanks Sara :)

Student NETS # 1, 2, 4

Are your students showing their digital citizenship?

As teachers we are responsible for teaching community citizenship. Sometimes we can over look the obvious... in this case we have to teach are students DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP! There is an appropriate way of communicating with peers and adults, but today we have to teach the appropriate way of communicating online. We want our students being safe. We have to model this. The NETS spell out what we should be covering.

NETS


5. Digital Citizenship: Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

    a. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible
    use of information and technology

    b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology
    that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity

    c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for
    lifelong learning

    d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship

NETS for Teachers #4
NETS for Students #5

Our Masterpiece!

Sara and I spent much time collaborating on content and design. With the help of Google Docs and Photo Story 3 we were able to create something we can use within our classrooms. Our digital story was on the Plant Life Cycle. Through this video we are able to "front load" the unit vocabulary with our students. This video will give our students an idea of what to expect to learn over the next month. This video is also great to wrap up the unit as a recap. What a fun project! We are def planning on using this tool for future projects within our own classrooms! 

What do you guys think of our digital story? :)

Literacy Project DRAFT version

So with the help from Professor Arzt, we were able to recover my project as a movie. We are still working on getting the project into editing mode so I can continue working toward a final version. I only was able to record approx. 8 students along with their work.We were working on RAFT. RAFT is a writing strategy that helps students write from a different perspective. The students enjoy writing these :) They are excited to have a digital class book on writing friendly letters using RAFT! I hope to finish this project so i can share the project with the class along with their parents. Thanks Professor Arzt for helping me try to solve my problem!