Go!Animate Class Reflection

My GoAnimate Class Review by bethjbrown15 on GoAnimate

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I decided to try a web 2.0 tool called Go!Animate for my class reflection. It was very simple to do and fun. Look how sexy I made myself look and my colleague, not so much! Good times. I truly have enjoyed this class more than any other and am sad to see it end. But I know this will not be the end of  me using technology in my teaching. Thank you Judy for making this class so fabulous!

I'm A YouTuber!

 

Here is my digital story that I uploaded to YouTube. It is an informational story that I will show my class this week as we begin our nonfiction research and writing unit. I felt that this was a good way to get the kids interested in the subject of animals that live in the arctic, for each student will be responsible for researching and writing a report about an arctic animal. Hopefully something in this digital story will peak their interests enough to be motivated to write a report of their own. I really enjoyed preparing this digital story and look forward to making more!

Digital Storytelling with Toondoo

I made my first cartoon with a website called toondoo. It's really cool and kids will love being able to make and write their own cartoons. It's very simple. First, you just pick characters, settings, and props if you want then. Then, you add speech bubbles and write your text.  I'm still discovering all that it can do. This is my first cartoon attempt called Sleepy Dog.

Digital Story Telling on iPads

I found out from my IT person at school that I can connect my iPad to my SMARTboard. This has made me very excited because I have found so many great apps that I want my students to be able to use. Some of these apps have to do with Digital Storytelling. I discovered a woman, Karen Ogen, who has put together this presentation on Ipad apps that can be used for digital storytelling. She has some great ideas that I never would have thought possible! Go to
http://www.lexrich5.org/webpages/kogen/files/istorytelling.swf.  to check it out. The presentation itself is done on something called iSpring, which is a more advanced version of PowerPoint.