Instagram and Vine are great photo and video apps that be a classroom resource. Last year, I had my students do a science project at home and I had them use Instagram to show me their experimental set up, materials, and results. I told them to take "selfies" of their project.
In 8 ways you can use vine, Betsie Jonas has some great ideas like teaching phonics to children because the Vine video loop. She also mentions reenacting a favorite book scene. I would use Vine as an EOC review. I would give my students a vocabulary word and they would have to act it out and tape a Vine video (similar to charades). Then the other students would need to guess the term.
Vine
These vines are of my crazy pups!
Instagram Follow me!!
This photo is of my husband and brother kayaking
This is my sweet nephew and he loves ranch!
I'm enjoying a cup of coffee!
Friday, April 25, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
Information Curation
Happy Easter!
This week's assignment was to look into information curation, which is a site where new articles are a collected and sorted. I did not know about what information curations, but it is very interesting. One can look through topics and save articles to a your personal curation.
When searching through the sites, I liked Flipboard the most. The layout is very similar to reading an actual magazine because it feel like you're flipping the pages. I also liked that saving an article is easy because the buttons are located at the bottom of the page. Google Currents is easy to use as well. You can look for magazines and save them to your lifestyle section. When looking through Paper.li, I felt it fell short in comparison to the curation Apps. Once you have created a paper, you cannot add another topic to it or follow on twitter. I found that I wanted to have all the articles on one page instead of creating different newspapers for each topic. I do not think I could see myself using this website.
This week's assignment was to look into information curation, which is a site where new articles are a collected and sorted. I did not know about what information curations, but it is very interesting. One can look through topics and save articles to a your personal curation.
When searching through the sites, I liked Flipboard the most. The layout is very similar to reading an actual magazine because it feel like you're flipping the pages. I also liked that saving an article is easy because the buttons are located at the bottom of the page. Google Currents is easy to use as well. You can look for magazines and save them to your lifestyle section. When looking through Paper.li, I felt it fell short in comparison to the curation Apps. Once you have created a paper, you cannot add another topic to it or follow on twitter. I found that I wanted to have all the articles on one page instead of creating different newspapers for each topic. I do not think I could see myself using this website.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Screencast
Hello.
Using screen shots are very useful when someone is presenting a tutorial or a how to. ScreenCast-o-matic was a very simple program. I did not have to download any new software. It was basically point, record, and finish! I really liked the different options to download the file, embed or share the link. I would use this website repeatedly, because it is so easy!
I could not use Screenr for the life of me. I downloaded Java fifty time on the computer, my laptop and even my husband's work laptop. It did not work! So, I gave up and downloaded Jing. Jing is very similar to ScreenCast except it is an program. I did not like the save or send to ScreenCast options. I had to redo my tutorial several times because I save the recording and I could not open it. When I uploaded the recording to ScreenCast, it took a long time. This is my link to my video and a photo of the Tagxedo I've made. http://screencast.com/t/MTWwuTVe
My favorite would obviously be ScreenCast-o-matic hands down! It was easy, free, and user friendly.
Using screen shots are very useful when someone is presenting a tutorial or a how to. ScreenCast-o-matic was a very simple program. I did not have to download any new software. It was basically point, record, and finish! I really liked the different options to download the file, embed or share the link. I would use this website repeatedly, because it is so easy!
I could not use Screenr for the life of me. I downloaded Java fifty time on the computer, my laptop and even my husband's work laptop. It did not work! So, I gave up and downloaded Jing. Jing is very similar to ScreenCast except it is an program. I did not like the save or send to ScreenCast options. I had to redo my tutorial several times because I save the recording and I could not open it. When I uploaded the recording to ScreenCast, it took a long time. This is my link to my video and a photo of the Tagxedo I've made. http://screencast.com/t/MTWwuTVe
My favorite would obviously be ScreenCast-o-matic hands down! It was easy, free, and user friendly.
Friday, April 4, 2014
Playing with Words
Hello again. This week's activity is displaying words with different web sites.
Word Clouds
Quipio & ReciteThis
These two sites are so cool! I love creating these images! It was simple and fast. My students would love to create these images.
As a STAAR EOC teacher, I am constantly looking for new ways for students to understand a topic. I would use any of these websites to enhance their understanding. In my district we have a TLI Grant (Texas Literacy Initiative) and one of the objectives is to increase understanding of text or stories. The TLI specialist gave me a short story of small poxes and Word Clouds would be an excellent way of showing student understanding. In Tagxedo, they could type in key terms or write a summary about the reading. Once they are finished, they could email me the image.
Word Clouds
Word clouds are a tools to assess your students' understanding on a topic or reading. According to the article from Teaching Tactics, Scott Hamm states students can use word clouds to reflect on the reading and organize their thoughts. With the revision of the TEKS and CCRS, rigor and higher order thinking is stressed.
I liked that the student can type in their own thoughts and see them in a different way. I preferred using Tagxedo and Tagul because there were a variety of font style and color options. I also liked that you could save, share and print the image. I felt Wordle was limited on the font color. When I was trying to save the image I could only embed or print the image out. I didn't like that.
Quipio & ReciteThis
As a STAAR EOC teacher, I am constantly looking for new ways for students to understand a topic. I would use any of these websites to enhance their understanding. In my district we have a TLI Grant (Texas Literacy Initiative) and one of the objectives is to increase understanding of text or stories. The TLI specialist gave me a short story of small poxes and Word Clouds would be an excellent way of showing student understanding. In Tagxedo, they could type in key terms or write a summary about the reading. Once they are finished, they could email me the image.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)