Look what I found - in case you are still looking for the ABC assignment ideas.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/election/glossary.shtml
Anat
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Digital Storytellong 2
After finishing my project, I feel great. I am happy to be able to find a story in my life to share. After finishing my project, suddenly I realized that I have many stories to tell and that they do not have to be big! Even small pieces of my life can be a basis for a Digital Storytelling!
Creating the story was time consuming. I was surprised how every time I was sure it is going to end, I had more things to edit or more additions to put in it (music, effects, etc.).
I am happy we had this experience and I am happy I have done the whole thing by myself - from finding and downloading the Movie Maker to the final product!
When corpora ting it in my classroom in the future, I think it is very important to have a strict plan and very clear steps. Otherwise, it will take forever! Especially for very young students, I think there should be a frame to which the story is to be inserted. I mean, some type of pattern that have certain structure or specific wording where the children can insert their personal narratives into.
I am curious to hear stories of teachers from our classroom who tried it with their children, or are going to try it!
Creating the story was time consuming. I was surprised how every time I was sure it is going to end, I had more things to edit or more additions to put in it (music, effects, etc.).
I am happy we had this experience and I am happy I have done the whole thing by myself - from finding and downloading the Movie Maker to the final product!
When corpora ting it in my classroom in the future, I think it is very important to have a strict plan and very clear steps. Otherwise, it will take forever! Especially for very young students, I think there should be a frame to which the story is to be inserted. I mean, some type of pattern that have certain structure or specific wording where the children can insert their personal narratives into.
I am curious to hear stories of teachers from our classroom who tried it with their children, or are going to try it!
Last week reflection
Last week, as always, we had some interesting resources and ideas of how to use technology in our classroom. The "Living Books" were fun. I liked the simplicity of applying it in class, having children creating a poem of their own!
The Web quest - it is great to have ready-made resources, but when I was looking for a language web quest, I only found a few, maybe 4 options to choose from. Most of the quests were in Spanish and one in French. I tried to take a look at the French one and didn't have much success in solving the question I tried... :-( However, I think their idea was pretty exciting: You are chosen to open a famous French restaurant, and have to construct the menu and some of the dishes. I think it is an original way of teaching basic language skills like foods. When I taught Hebrew, foods were one of the first vocabularies. I made a paper menu and the students and I pretended to be in a restaurant and play costumers and waiters. It was fun, but when I saw seeing the Web quest I thought to myself that this type of task can be very engaging and motivating, and at the end - you have your own 5 stars restaurant! It would be nice to learn how to plan such a web quest which will fit specific curriculum needs.
The web 2.0 second life - this is new to me and I have never tried it until we had the Club Penguin experience in class. I think it is amazing that you can create a whole 2nd virtual life...I started thinking how I will be able to incorporate it in the Literacy classroom, and I do not remember if it something I read in the article 2 weeks ago, or my own thoughts (or a mix of both) but it would be neat to create a world based on a book. Just for example - if the students read Harry Potter, it would be great to create a world of Hogwarts where the students become Hogwarts-students. In this world they would learn about different occurrences from the narrative, places and characters while spending time in this world.
Lastly, the Storyline online - I truly enjoyed it. It is so great to have actors read stories to kids. I remember myself sitting fascinated every Friday after school, when we had a TV show with an actor reading stories. With the stories being available for free online, children who do not have the patience to read a book, or have reading disabilities, can "read" a story or be exposed to literature. It is a wonderful website. I love it! I wish I had more time to explore it!
The Web quest - it is great to have ready-made resources, but when I was looking for a language web quest, I only found a few, maybe 4 options to choose from. Most of the quests were in Spanish and one in French. I tried to take a look at the French one and didn't have much success in solving the question I tried... :-( However, I think their idea was pretty exciting: You are chosen to open a famous French restaurant, and have to construct the menu and some of the dishes. I think it is an original way of teaching basic language skills like foods. When I taught Hebrew, foods were one of the first vocabularies. I made a paper menu and the students and I pretended to be in a restaurant and play costumers and waiters. It was fun, but when I saw seeing the Web quest I thought to myself that this type of task can be very engaging and motivating, and at the end - you have your own 5 stars restaurant! It would be nice to learn how to plan such a web quest which will fit specific curriculum needs.
The web 2.0 second life - this is new to me and I have never tried it until we had the Club Penguin experience in class. I think it is amazing that you can create a whole 2nd virtual life...I started thinking how I will be able to incorporate it in the Literacy classroom, and I do not remember if it something I read in the article 2 weeks ago, or my own thoughts (or a mix of both) but it would be neat to create a world based on a book. Just for example - if the students read Harry Potter, it would be great to create a world of Hogwarts where the students become Hogwarts-students. In this world they would learn about different occurrences from the narrative, places and characters while spending time in this world.
Lastly, the Storyline online - I truly enjoyed it. It is so great to have actors read stories to kids. I remember myself sitting fascinated every Friday after school, when we had a TV show with an actor reading stories. With the stories being available for free online, children who do not have the patience to read a book, or have reading disabilities, can "read" a story or be exposed to literature. It is a wonderful website. I love it! I wish I had more time to explore it!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
digital storytellong
I think I finally got something. It was so much more difficult than I thought it would be. I have read the instructions over and over again, starred at the story boards, visited CDS (http://www.storycenter.org/resources.html) and watched many other people's stories there (which finally got me depressed so I stopped. I have to add here that in spite of not seeing any humorous stories there, I recommend visiting this web site and watch some stories since they are performed so beautifully. "In my shoes" was my favorite). I looked at all the picture albums I have at home; thought of pictures I do not have with me here. I thought of events in my life. Nothing seemed to be interesting enough for other people to hear.
I think my story would be about a hot topic at our home those days. I realized that if it interests me - I may be able to make it interesting for my audience.
I think my story would be about a hot topic at our home those days. I realized that if it interests me - I may be able to make it interesting for my audience.
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