The projects are done (I think). Today we created our Voicethreads and it's looks like we are ready to present our projects to our parents. Let me go into a little more detail about the past week and what we've been doing.
As stated in my previous post - My Crazy Idea...Project Update I reconfigured the worksheet I had my students completing in effect simplifying it. The students worked to complete this worksheet. Once they completed the worksheets, I turned those answers into sentences. I allowed the students to place these sentences in any order. The sentences were used to create a Voicethread which they will present to their peers and parents.
This has been a great experience for me. The kids have really enjoyed having a say in their learning, and to see the looks on their faces when they heard their own voice come out of the computer was priceless! I will be doing some reflection on what we have accomplished, and areas that need to be tweaked, but that's a post for another day!
Patrick
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I've been working all day on Voicethread!- I'm not sure how long it took you to produce your work ... but I had to start again because I had 'doodled' when I did the comments and then I couldn't get rid of the doodles they just turned up in each slide.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your the presentation.
I've just finished a voicethread about a Valentine enterprise project I did with my students. I am also working on a project of my own about my first year at North London Polytechnic ! -1977
Sorry to hear about your misadventure. I did have some issues because I had my instructional assistants doing some of them. The issue I had was they wanted to redo the comments and saved them instead, so some of the picture ended up with 4-5 comments (all saying the same thing). I've not used the 'doodling' option yet.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, other than that, I've been using Voicethread as a way to share what we are doing in the classroom with parents, they love getting the information, and seeing the kids!
I am a current student studying to become a teacher, possibly in special education. What exactly is a Voicethread! and what types of things do you use them for? I am curious because I have never heard of them but it seems like something I may want to institute in my classroom one day to stay connected with the parents. Thank you.
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Voicethread.com is a very simple slideshow program. You can upload pictures, and then make comments on them. Once you publish it other's who view it can comment too, so you can create a conversation. You can see more information at this blog post - http://teachingall.blogspot.com/2009/01/voicethread.html
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