http://ed.voicethread.com/#q.b251337.i1312710
A great example of how to use Voicethread as a teaching tool.. this example in literature! Thank you to Ms. Padfield/ Inman Elementary
Saturday, February 28, 2009
One more thing
Teachers as well as students who do not have Promethean software on their laptops can go to Promethean planet and download the Activstudio Flipchart Viewer,Mac or PC version as well as Activprimary Flipchart viewer! Students can view these great flipcharts on their own computers for the awesome content found in those resources!
Three things I learned today
1. Inman is using ustream for live video. This week they use ustream to view their "rock" stars....students dressed up like the rocks they are studying.Because of ustream they could broadcast to other schools!
2. Try skitch
3. Follow Howie George on Plurk for good tehnology opportunities from cosmosphere educational division.
2. Try skitch
3. Follow Howie George on Plurk for good tehnology opportunities from cosmosphere educational division.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wednesday winners!
Wednesday winners is going really good! The kids love the rotating sessions. Calculators and white boards in my group are well liked by third graders.
The boys in my fifth grade group have a new challenge. Their keynotes were printed today to go to my favorite math professor, Tom Worthing. Professor Worthing is going to evaluate each slide for content and understanding. He will give hints for editing and adding material to their keynote if necessary.Content has to be specific and teach the concept thoroughly! He will also help them find some more practical or every day applications for their particular math concept.
The boys in my fifth grade group have a new challenge. Their keynotes were printed today to go to my favorite math professor, Tom Worthing. Professor Worthing is going to evaluate each slide for content and understanding. He will give hints for editing and adding material to their keynote if necessary.Content has to be specific and teach the concept thoroughly! He will also help them find some more practical or every day applications for their particular math concept.
Making incredible valentines online
One home page choose PARTY PRINTER.
Next page choose VALENTINE
Enter text on third page
Change font size and paper size.
Press print to preview your valentine
Save as image to desktop.
Print on beautiful colored paper and send with love!
A Valentine to remember!
Check out festisite.com. Directions for making a valentine like these on next blog post!
Personalized Money
Found the neatest site! Try making personalized money! Festisite.com
Try it...you'll like it!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Keynote to make historical book!
A historical keynote made about Bat Masterson. Print slides to make a book!
Friday, February 6, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Geocaching and Google Earth and Google Maps on Friday!
This is the plan for Friday.Third grade and fourth grade teachers worked together to "plant" some geocaches. Half of the combined classes will go outside with the two teachers to geocache with our GPS's. (You can rent several for a week from Essdack if you do not have any.) When half of the kids are outside geocaching, I will have the other half of those classes with their own laptops looking at Google Earth and Google Maps. Thirty minutes will fly but I will update you later on how it goes. On google earth we will be taking a journey to Polar lands and hope to have time to find some fun things like Disney world etc. with the thought in mind to introduce some google earth tools and geography,concept of three dimension etc.
Winning Wednesdays
Each Wednesday a special event takes place at Obee and it started today. Wednesday winners is a program of tutoring in small groups for math skills review and practice.My first assignment was third grade. I had two rotations of 4 and 5 kids with the goal being practice using calculators and finding whether pairs of addition or subtraction matched each other. I found a way for them to "organize" their answers on their scrap paper to make the choice much easier to "see". Then to reinforce rechecking we redid the calculator problem with the choice we thought was the correct answer! We had a LOT of fun and the kids were very stimulated using white boards and calculators! The two groups were in my rotation for 20 minutes each.
My second group to work with were 4 boys in grade 5. Their assignment is to make a keynote then a voicethread to illustrate various math concepts. The concepts were ordered pairs, mixed numbers , fractions,improper fractions, estimating fractions and variables. The first step is to organize their ideas. They each did a sample problem of their assigned topic. We discussed words to use such as vertical, horizontal for the ordered pairs topic as an example. As we worked on the technology side of the project our challenges were to find a way to illustrate a fraction on Keynote. We learned how to make mixed numbers look like a mixed number on the slide: make the whole number large in font size and then highlight the fraction and make it smaller. Devin got that one!!
Now how to make a vertical line in keynote that fits under the horizontal number line. Connor showed all of us how to pull down the shape line that can be adjusted to be straight or at any angle and can be moved below the number line. Perfect. Devin helped us find a way to get the line thicker by going to shapes in inspector. Believe me these boys are good!
We looked up some words in a dictionary. They taught me a new quick place to find a dictionary. I have always gone online to merriamwebster.com but they said. "hey press F12 and add a dictionary to your dashboard. Which we did. There is an option for a thesaurus or dictionary in a popup window. Awesome!
We will continue to make our keynotes, perfect our content and edit, add color and then begin our transfer to Voicethreads. They were dreaming of being on YOU TUBE and I decided to show them a couple voicethreads on my blog for an example of how this is going to look on a blog. AWE... a most satisfying academic exploration, especially for me!
Something we are going to add to the assignment is a story problem for their concept as well as practical uses in everyday life involving their assigned concept. I will post some of the results. We meet just once a week on Winning Wednesday at Obee School!
My second group to work with were 4 boys in grade 5. Their assignment is to make a keynote then a voicethread to illustrate various math concepts. The concepts were ordered pairs, mixed numbers , fractions,improper fractions, estimating fractions and variables. The first step is to organize their ideas. They each did a sample problem of their assigned topic. We discussed words to use such as vertical, horizontal for the ordered pairs topic as an example. As we worked on the technology side of the project our challenges were to find a way to illustrate a fraction on Keynote. We learned how to make mixed numbers look like a mixed number on the slide: make the whole number large in font size and then highlight the fraction and make it smaller. Devin got that one!!
Now how to make a vertical line in keynote that fits under the horizontal number line. Connor showed all of us how to pull down the shape line that can be adjusted to be straight or at any angle and can be moved below the number line. Perfect. Devin helped us find a way to get the line thicker by going to shapes in inspector. Believe me these boys are good!
We looked up some words in a dictionary. They taught me a new quick place to find a dictionary. I have always gone online to merriamwebster.com but they said. "hey press F12 and add a dictionary to your dashboard. Which we did. There is an option for a thesaurus or dictionary in a popup window. Awesome!
We will continue to make our keynotes, perfect our content and edit, add color and then begin our transfer to Voicethreads. They were dreaming of being on YOU TUBE and I decided to show them a couple voicethreads on my blog for an example of how this is going to look on a blog. AWE... a most satisfying academic exploration, especially for me!
Something we are going to add to the assignment is a story problem for their concept as well as practical uses in everyday life involving their assigned concept. I will post some of the results. We meet just once a week on Winning Wednesday at Obee School!
Tuesday I was at a 21st century school.
It is Obee School. This is what I saw yesterday. Mrs. Atkins was reading The Mitten to students. Then when the students went to tables she made a presentation on the Promethean that she downloaded about the animals in the mitten story. This could be adapted for many levels BUT don't forget reading the book in a storytelling setting begins the process! The flip chart she downloaded is from Promethean Planet and is called Mittens. There are a variety of activities in the flip chart and she choose to review the animals. The screen shot above shows what it looks like.
Second class I attended was Mrs. Yocam's third grade where a variety of technology projects were in process including Polar keynotes and for those that have completed that project and had it evaluated were beginning their writing about themselves to be put in a product that looks like a newspaper! The All About Me project is in progress.I will post one when they are complete. Mrs. Atkins will be having a lesson on biographies in library this week as reinforcement.
Third class I attended was Mrs. Gilleys fifth grade.
Beginning with a Brain Pop movie on Erosion watched by all using her laptop, promethean board as a screen and surround sound.
After the movie was completed, she opened the promethean and set to activote mode.
Back to laptop projected with Brain Pop quiz and read question and choices for answers. Then kids voted for the correct answer on the "activote eggs". Click on activote icon to get a graphed result of the student vote. Teacher then goes back to brain pop quiz to see what the correct answer is. You get immediate feedback from brain pop! A really fun way to assess.
The activotes are saved to an excel spreadsheet so this can be used for a grade.
Activote eggs are assigned to kids by number.
Wow...
this is a summary of my Tuesday at Obee, a 21st century school! And then Wednesday came......
Proud of Mrs. Yocam
Mrs Yocam continues her journey of integrating technology into her curriculum. Together she and I worked with the kids on content driven keynotes on a Polar Animal of their choice. Some skills used in this activity include learning about citations,researching for a specific answer, writing and rewriting after reseaching. A lot of technology skills were used such as getting good quality pictures from internet by following the rules of getting the picture with the largest resolution, copy and pasting information, organizing thoughts by use of storyboarding or plan sheets. The list goes on!
Keynotes are turning out good. One has flying Arctic terns on slide one! Awesome!
The keynotes were evaluated by a rubric. See other entries about Polar Keynote in this blog.
Now in writing the kids are writing about themselves. The information will be shared with others via a Pages newspaper template! The students want me to make one too!
TRC is totally AWESOME!
Keynotes are turning out good. One has flying Arctic terns on slide one! Awesome!
The keynotes were evaluated by a rubric. See other entries about Polar Keynote in this blog.
Now in writing the kids are writing about themselves. The information will be shared with others via a Pages newspaper template! The students want me to make one too!
TRC is totally AWESOME!
Google Maps.. Find your house!
Mrs. Yocum reminded me today of Google Maps. It has an amazing capability! You may put in an address and you can "navigate" the block to find your home.
I found street view pictures of my sons home in Wichia, Amy's home in Bridgewater, NJ from street view and a satellite picture of Kwasniaks in Highland Heights, Ohio. Quite exciting.
Here is an example. I will upload a picture of Amy's home in New Jersey.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Google Earth
I have finally gotten excited about google earth. It took a while didn't it? I have been studying and formulating my plan for Friday and have found so many things I did not know about google earth. I think we are going to go on a "tour" of places yet to be determined. I want them to really be able to see something since they are young users.I found a lot of neat ideas for upper level to use with math, science, social studies. I printed the slide show I found called Twenty two interesting ways to use google earth in the classroom (and tips). It has some of the neatest activities in there. Any ideas you have will be welcome. Is a tour just really non creative? I hope they learn about using some of the tools.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Storyboarding for Polar keynote
This is our "plan sheet" for our Polar Keynotes. Great way to make sure the ideas are all in the keynote and the student can use the sheet for notetaking.
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