Friday, April 27, 2012

TIE Blog 2

I finished my voicethread on April 4th. To my surprise it went really well. The students understood exactlly what to do. I think what really helped me was that I went the day before to the classroom to practice with the students and teach them how to use the voicethread. Since they're so little I had to practice with them a few times before they got the hang of how to use the comment by using the doodle and by learning how to change the color. I also taught them how to choose an identity which they understood how to do very quickly.

When it was time for them to go to their groups they were excited to do the voicethread. I was proud that they all did a great job without any help. Looking through the final voicethread I could see that the student did an excellent job in choosing the correct answer, there were a few students that made some small mistakes.

As you can see from the voicethread, the last slide where it has a chart...was blank because I added it to the voicethread afterwards. I was planning to do this slide another day with the students but I wasn't able to do it. But I still left it on the voicethread so you can see another idea of what the students could do. The idea was for them to draw the stages of the butterfly correctlly or comment by using the voice comment to explain the stages of the life-cycle of the butterfly.

Doing this voicethread I could see that it takes alot of planning to do a good voicethread. It also takes practice and making sure that everything works well on each computer. Overall, I think it is a great idea to incorporate it in the classroom a few times, that way students are able to learn the different types of technology that is out there.


Here's the finished product!(:

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

TIE Blog 1

Because of lesson plan changes, me and Jahazia weren't able to work on our voicethreads together. I have added all the documents that I used to prepare for my voicethread.
               Here is the roughdraft of my voicethread

Storyboard Questions:
1. Circle the leaf, stem, flower, and roots of the plant?
 (the student will color according to the color they are told to color each part)
2. What part of the flower gets the water?
3.What part of the flower does a bee get the nectar from?
4. What does a caterpillar eat? What does it turn into?
5. What are the lifecycle steps of the butterfly?