My students were taught different types of poetry using the webquest I created. The students used the powerpoint application to create their poetry digital book. Now the class has become "digital book" experts and are going to work with other classes in our school to teach them how to create their own digital book. I shared the web quest and taught them how to make the digital books and find web sites that help with teaching poetry. The students enjoy this tremedously.
http://www.badongo.com/file/9099116 Caleb's poetry book
http://www.badongo.com/file/9099145 Meredith's poetry book
Monday, April 28, 2008
movie maker
I finally finished making a movie of "A Day at the Beach" using pictures from a family vacation. This was fun to do while my computer worked like it should. I plan on making movies the last 2 weeks of school with my class and another class for enrichment. I have to come up with a plan on enriching students and keeping them active the weeks after EOG. I want to have the students make their own movie. I will be using storybook 3 I believe. My tech person wanted to do something other than movie maker. It doesn't matter which one we use just as long as I can expose my students to another form of tech that they can do and enjoy.
On second thought I jus tried uploading my video and there is a problem. I will be back with an answer.
I used badango to upload the video from movie maker.
http://www.badongo.com/file/9098861
On second thought I jus tried uploading my video and there is a problem. I will be back with an answer.
I used badango to upload the video from movie maker.
http://www.badongo.com/file/9098861
Virtual class
Selfishly I spoke up for having the last two classes be virtual but I was speaking for the class since everyone stated that is what they wanted. I will say I have enjoyed not having to pay for a babysitter or for gas @$3.61/gal; however, I think I would have liked to had class tonight, our last class. I am having problems with getting my video made. My computer is having technically difficulty with audio. I also would have liked to share the skype experience with the class. It was extremely cool to do for me and for my students. It was as if we stepped into the future and made it our present. This was something we, as a class, had only seen on tv but not experienced in person. I also think that the virtual class would have been better to try when we were using skype for the first time and then try it again later.
This class has been a wonderful experience. At first I was leary of how it could be incorporated with literacy, but now I have used it for poetry webquest, podcast with book report, and digital books of student stories. I want to begin gaggle, podcasts, and blogging at the beginning on next school year. There has been so much to learn. I worried I wouldn't be able to keep abreast of the newest and latest but Dave reassured me that I could first his website to see what is going on in technology that is related to literacy.
This class has been a wonderful experience. At first I was leary of how it could be incorporated with literacy, but now I have used it for poetry webquest, podcast with book report, and digital books of student stories. I want to begin gaggle, podcasts, and blogging at the beginning on next school year. There has been so much to learn. I worried I wouldn't be able to keep abreast of the newest and latest but Dave reassured me that I could first his website to see what is going on in technology that is related to literacy.
Using Skype with Students
On Thursday, I called Dave using Skype. I called in my classroom. At first I had technical difficulty. The averkey would not hook up to the lap top, then when I just try to connect to skype, my computer would not connect to the internet. Finally after working for 15 minutes, trying to keep kids quiet while I thought??!!, I was able to reach day.
Prior to this day, I had to get a new web cam on Tuesday due to not being able to use the hardware on the school. On Wednesday, Dave could not hear me so I ran to BestBuy again to get a new microphone.
When I connected with Dave on Thursday, the sound was poor on Dave's end. Luckily, my class and I heard him well while he read a book. My students loved hearing the story. I showed the pictures while Dave read. My sound was still not the best so I had to either talk for my students or have then yell their answers or questions.
After our conversation and story with Dave, I had the students think about how we communicate with people at our homes, cars or school. We compared how technology is ever changing. Many students were so excited. They kept on saying, I have seen this on tv but didn't know it could be done in the classroom.
I have a dad calling this week or next using skype. He is calling from Iraq. He is going to give us information about what it is like in Iraq. Then I will have to remove Skype from the school laptop. It requires a lot of memory. This is the problem the school has with skype. I don't think the powers that be consider it dangerous for students just dangerous for the memory and bandwidth.
I would love to use this next year. Lindsey and I talked about trying to be skype buddies and calling each other 1-2 times a month. I also have friends who teach in other parts of the country. I would like to try to contact them as well.
Prior to this day, I had to get a new web cam on Tuesday due to not being able to use the hardware on the school. On Wednesday, Dave could not hear me so I ran to BestBuy again to get a new microphone.
When I connected with Dave on Thursday, the sound was poor on Dave's end. Luckily, my class and I heard him well while he read a book. My students loved hearing the story. I showed the pictures while Dave read. My sound was still not the best so I had to either talk for my students or have then yell their answers or questions.
After our conversation and story with Dave, I had the students think about how we communicate with people at our homes, cars or school. We compared how technology is ever changing. Many students were so excited. They kept on saying, I have seen this on tv but didn't know it could be done in the classroom.
I have a dad calling this week or next using skype. He is calling from Iraq. He is going to give us information about what it is like in Iraq. Then I will have to remove Skype from the school laptop. It requires a lot of memory. This is the problem the school has with skype. I don't think the powers that be consider it dangerous for students just dangerous for the memory and bandwidth.
I would love to use this next year. Lindsey and I talked about trying to be skype buddies and calling each other 1-2 times a month. I also have friends who teach in other parts of the country. I would like to try to contact them as well.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Gabcast and odeo for podcast
http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&id=19528My son has to write a book report and complete a diarama. I had him give me the report orally after he had read the book. I used his report for a podcast.
The first link is our second try. I had a problem with gabcast last week but it worked great this week. I think this would be wonderful to use in school to showcase what children are doing in each class.
The second link is odeo. It is not working yet. I am still working on getting sound. When I tested it, it worked but then later it didn't.
I can see using gabcast next school year but I am not so sure about odeo.
Monday, April 21, 2008
podcast
I wasn't able to get started on my podcast tonight. I went to Gabcast and signed up to get confirmation to get started but I never received my confirmation. The odeo studio to download it; however, I kept on getting kicked off the internet. Odeo studio was very slow and not allowing me to go the the site. I will try again tomorrow.
I understand the problem with Skype
I now understand why my school system had a problem with Skype. It takes a lot of memory. I had to take skype off of my own personal computer as well as Jing. It was making my computer crash and not allowing me to save the smallest amount of memory. I was very frustrated yesterday. I was writing a final exam for another class. I was 4 pages into the final and went save and my computer was rejecting it. Luckily I had my flash drive to save. I had to remove skype and jing. However, I do have permission to have skype at school now and I have down loaded it and I can use it in the classroom.
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