Give Me Five

Week 9 Thing 23

Prezi definitely looks inviting. I think I would use it for my own presentations, but I'm not sure if our students at my school are ready for it yet. Many of them do not even know how to do PowerPoint, but we'll see. Baby steps. SlideRocket was very exciting. It may be a little complicated for elementary students to use. Too bad it's not free. There are so many wonderful tools available for us to use, it's just a matter of sitting down and playing with them.

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Week Thing 21

Storybird and GoAnimate seem absolutely amazing! Students would have so much fun using these tools to create their own stories. I think I would use Storybird for younger children, maybe as a class project, since it is less complictaed to use than GoAnimate. Maybe 4th, but probably 5th graders would be able to successfully use GoAnimate. All would need to create a storyboard of their story, utilizing those writing skills. As with many of the tools we are learning about, these could be used for all subject areas - explaining science concepts, basic math concepts and processes, language skills, social studies issues, history, living biographies, etc....
As I look over all of the tools that we have been using, tools I would use include Mixbook and Smilebox, to organize and use/share my pictures; Blabberize was very cute and I would like to use this with my 3rd grade classes. I want to add more information to my wiki, and use it to communicate with parents and teachers regarding our media programs and procedures. I think I'll start small, with just a couple of tools at first, and work my way up to more as the year goes on.

Week 8 Thing 20

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Week 8 Thing 19

Fun and easy to use. Children would have so much fun adding their comments, jokes, whatever to their pictures. Using this in the classroom can help improve writing skills with even the most unmotivated students.

Week 7 Thing 18

I've cropped this 5 times and it keeps saving like this. What happened?

So I decided to try Tagxedo and had a hard time with the embed code, but I did what I saw some of the other students doing, since they were having the same problem I was. This just isn't my night...

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Week 3 Thing 7

          I really enjoyed playing with this site and my pictures! I tried playing with another picture of my son, James, at Daytona Experience in front of Jeff Gordon's car, put I guess my picture was too blurry to fix. Anyway, students would have a lot of fun using this tool, maybe with identifying animals, or a host of other activities. The only problem would be getting them to stop and finish.                                                                      

Week 3 Thing 6

By adandrew | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

Week 3 Thing 5

| View Sample Photo Books | Create your own Photo Book

I chose this student-made book because it seemed like a great example of what a teacher can lead a class to accomplish. This type of project requires writing skills, planning, creating a storyboard, creating or researching different puzzles and the whole class collaborating to create one incredible book. This one obviously took a great deal of work and time, but I could see using Mixbook with a class to create a simple book, with each child contributing a page, and sharing it with parents and other classes.

| View Sample Photo Books | Create your own Photo Book

I've tried embedding the You Arrrrrhhh a Pirate book repeatedly, and I can't get it to play, so I've tried choosing another book. This one is a Preschool Graduation Scrapbook.

Week 2 Thing 4 Reflection

I could see me using this with my 3rd, 4th & 5th grade students blogging their reviews of the Sunshine State books throughout the school year. Generally, I do books talks about all of the SSYRA books and then continue promoting them throughout the first half of the school year. The children love to tell me which one is their favorite and why, so this is a great way to get them writing about it.

http://kidblog.org/MrsAndrewsclass4/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1

Week 2 Thing 3

OK, so I've made it this far and it hasn't been too hard...There's hope for me yet! It's really kind of fun. Can't wait to learn more and try to use the new technologies in my media center.