Mrs. Marin's "Welcome to Your World" Photostory Project 2012

For this project, I created a Photostory presentation to be used with my students as an introduction to my class at the start of the school year.




The presentation I showed to the class was a History Channel video clip about Vikings--very cool!

http://www.history.com/videos/who-were-the-vikings#who-were-the-vikings

Johnston video Elite 2

Students in my 4th grade Medieval Studies class made videos of each other explaining three things that they could do today to live a chivalrous life. Here is one video:

Media Projects

I recently had my students create presentations using Photo Story, Animoto, Glogster, or Prezi.  Many of the students chose photo story and the projects look great!!  I am a little shocked at how little the students know about some of these programs as well as how much "hand-holding" was needed to help produce a good presentation.

Socialization Video Assignment

Students were given an assignment to create a video demonstrating their understanding of the agents of socialization and how those agents have personally impact them. The assignment was a huge success for most students. It took a lot of time, but they enjoyed it and it worked. I will bring a couple of the DVD's to the meeting with me.

Video assignment

Here is a video I show for the stages of grief:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Z3lmidmrY

I currently have a student teacher so I have not assigned a video assignment.  However, earlier in the year my kids created children's stories using storybook.

Jessica Laney, Cohort 10

Video projects

First: in IB theatre we watched Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco on Netflix to introduce them to Theatre of the Absurd that is more accessible.

Second: we created a PSA for the theatre program with a group called Show-Me Arts Advocacy. Here is the link:

Engineering Class Competition Video

Students from LHS's Engineering team create a video for submission to STLCC contest.

German listening activity

I wanted to make a video using clips the kids tookof themselves using irregular German verbs.  However, I did not get enough usable clips.  So I made this up on YouTube and am using it as a listening activity for my 7th graders' test this Thursday and Friday.  I have new clips of a German house that I would like to edit into a video for my 8th graders, and hopefully Colin will show me how to do that!

Derickson - Video Project

Derickson, Moehlmann, c10

This was challenging...until Angie showed me what I was doing wrong :)

I think this tool will be very useful in the future for vocabulary studying for my students.

Brian Tobias' video for Brown v. Board

First graders tell about their whale study

My first graders have spent 3 class periods studying the whales of the world. They completed this study by drawing and then painting their type of whale, on a scale of 1' =1". You will see these paintings and hear the students telling about them, on our photostory link here.

Video in the classroom

Student Creation-Students from Service Group Komfort 4 Kids needed to create a video to launch the Service Project's mission.  They made it in Movie Maker.  I have also had students create video for an Economic concept.  They are a lot of fun to watch.

Hoffman's Audio - Pirates' Adventure

Play message

One of my reading groups acted out this readers' theater skit using Google Voice. They loved this activity.

Geometry Vocabulary Video

Make your own slideshow at Animoto.

This is a geometry vocabulary video that my fifth graders made to begin the unit. It was easy to use, and they really enjoy watching it. 

Flight

Students watch video of flight.


Kids are picking up a bobbin from circle #1 and moving it to circle #3 using a storing position.

Creation Video

MAP Concentration Words

My students created this video using MAP concentration vocabulay words. The students helped create the video, and they view it daily to help prepare them for the MAP test.

Diane Hoffman's Consumption Video

I used this video of Tim Tebow reading the book, Green Eggs & Ham, to students. I showed this video to my reading groups to let them see that not even famous people are comfortable with reading aloud. They found it fun to critique Tim Tebow's reading skills. Then the students discussed and compared their reading skills and attitudes to others.

 Green Eggs & Ham

Harlem Renaissance Video

Audio Project - Used as a bonus project during class

Audio Project

For my audio project, the students called in to explain how a room is heated up by convection. We talked about convection and observed a convection current in a beaker of water that was heated up on a hot plate. I put rice in the water so they could visually see the current. We talked about the process in great detail, wrote down explanations and drew diagrams. A few days later, I gave the students the audio assignment. They first said their name and then started explaining how convection works to heat up a living room.

I really enjoyed listening to the responses. Over all the kids did well answering the question. I recommended that the students would first write it out and then call in the answer. Most kids did this and it worked well. We played some of the responses in class and the kids loved it. They also loved seeing how the transcription was so different than the actual words the person used.

Some students messed up the first time, so they called back a second time to restart. The only complaint, if any, was that an "anonymous" student rapped a song about wearing pants. The nice thing is that it is easy to delete.

greater than, less than first grade math

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqT6JBxKCo&feature=endscreen&NR=1


This is a link to a wonderful youtube video I used to introduce greater than and less than.

Audio Project

I wanted to record each of my students reading the same paragraph so that they could hear themselves and perhaps form a judgment as to their pronunciation and speech habits.  I used Audacity to record them, but haven't figured out how to put it on this blog.  If someone reads this and can help, I would appreciate the advice.

Before making the students' recordings, I read the paragraph aloud to them, showing them where to pause, where to emphasize a word, what rhythm to use.  The students were eager to record themselves and did a good job of it, but they don't seem to have the ability to recognize where they need improvement.  Perhaps that will come from more practice.  I would need to know how to set up separate accounts for them so that they could make different recordings over time and compare them.

As a final note (3-16-2012) to this post, I asked the students whom I had recorded on video whether I had their permission to post the video.  They did not want me to post it because (and if you know and understand ELL students as well as I do, you will understand, too), they did not want anyone to comment on their accent, remark on where they came from, or laugh at them.  They often do not ask questions in their content classes because they do not want the other students to know they are from other countries because they fear backlash.  So, I'm sorry I can't post the video, but please know that it was a valuable exercise for them and we will repeat it.

Audio Project Idea- Freese

My Child Development II students are observing in the Lindbergh Early Childhood Center on Tuesdays.  After their first visit they were to record an observation.  They were to state the gender of the child, approx. age and what behavior they observed.  After this we went over their observation skills by listening to their recording and then determined if their observation was descriptive or interpretive.  Most of my students participated in the activity.  It was a little difficult to understand what they were saying at times. 

I used Google Voice.  I had my foods students tell me whether they wanted to have any changes made to their lab groups and if they were having any problems in their groups.  I thought it would be a way they could talk to me without worrying about other students hearing them. 
It was okay.  Some of the written responses were hard to decipher.  I could not understand some of the voice messages.  It took longer to go through all of the messages than it would have taken to go through written responses.  The thing that bothered me the most was having my cell phone ring so often.  Perhaps I can make changes to avoid this.  I would like for the messages to just go to gmail.
Here is a link to a good message: https://www.google.com/voice/fm/03424515620539946930/AHwOX_AvPAKNzYW2ijQHqLrxQ0gqQYwuo2A_2ZgeETT-Qi0mP2Z0-xXFZLVYv4SGkp8kqk6LyKDJekNnBq-8RByzk_Mp9pZSiIaHWdWIR24yaaJlqXKsAu2x4xk1v8Z51VkD2C8n0PSHt5pNOquBHcPI9muo3jtwvQ

Dad's breakfast

My Animoto Video

I just found this cool site to produce videos and share them.

Check out the video I made in about five minutes!

Computer Repair Class uses audio

In my computer repair class I recorded the sound of a bad power supply fan and a working one.  I then let the students listen to both files and detemine which one has bad bearings.

  http://audioboo.fm/boos/660544-power-supply-fan-1

http://audioboo.fm/boos/660545-power-supply-fan-2

Beyond the beauty

We are giving a description of our service trip to Guatemala. We also are attempting to gain financial support from viewers to support the projects. My problems was I wanted students to do most of the recording and they have done several slides that I gave them but I haven't been at LHS long enough to import their audio pieces in. I'm also having trouble inserting a dvd we made on it. We're having fun doing this but need more time together to finish. I discovered the students' laptops record better than my loaner computer.

Drinen, c12, Davitt, audio

In our Civil Law unit in Business Law students will practice their advocacy skills by arguing for either the plaintiff or the defendant in a specific scenario provided. Students will prepare a 1 minute argument that they will present to the class. The argument must detail why their side should prevail. To prepare, they will record themselves using their own devices and then playback their argument to critique and improve for the final argument that will be live in front of the class. Students will need to document what they liked about their argument, what needs work, and how they plan to improve for the final argument in front of the class.

Brad Snyder's reflection

A-ha moments- I have tried Google voice with my classes to communicate the means in which they intend to use an upcoming project. During this trial I realized some of the many applications of this technology. I think I can give all students this number as a way to communicate confusions about a topic, so I can prepare to reteach the next day or simply prepare an answer for those unexpected questions. I also saw this as a great way to poll the class. We work out 3-4 MAP questions from a packet each week, and this would be a great way for each student to vote on the questions covered.

Laura Bauer- Google Voice

Students called my Google Voice # and left a message describing how they would use a formula in a real life situation. The messages were fun to listen to and the students seemed to enjoy it. The voice translation needs improvement.

Blackwood C12 Audio Davitt

This is the sounds of what the planer in the shop sounds like when it is started. The reason for doing this is so students understand that they need to wait for the machine to come up to full speed before putting the wood into the planer. I will use this when we do safety lessons at the beginning of the year.  I think that a video will be much better, then I can show what to do also. The benfit would be that I don't have 28 kids around one machine.http://audioboo.fm/boos/660270-planer-sounds A better mic would be great. It would be great to post safety videos to my facebook page so the kids could go back and review.

Pryor Audio Project

I used audacity to make a "vocal key" for my students to check each other's weekly MAP packet
that we do on Friday.  I will use this tomorrow (2/9/12) in class.  I think it will go well.  I had some problems getting it to save and reopen on my desktop

Mrs. Creech's Music Class--Mrs. Joy's Class Singing "Try Again"

Child Dev. II - Google Voice

My Child Development II students are observing in the Lindbergh Early Childhood Center on Tuesdays.  After their first visit they were to record an observation.  They were to state the gender of the child, approx. age and what behavior they observed.  After this we went over their observation skills by determining if their observation was descriptive or interpretive.

Entrepreneur archives

I didn't have the google voice set up in time to do it this year, but am planning on it for next fall. All of my students interview entrepreneurs as a class assingment. I will now have students create a recording of the interview using Google Voice and then I will keep an archive of all the interviews on my blog for students to use based on what type of business they are interested in using. Here are the questions they ask the entrepreneurs: Ask the Entrepreneur Student name: Name of Entrepreneur: Name of Business: Interview a local entrepreneur, ask the following questions: 1. How old were you when you began working at your first job? 2. When you were younger and just beginning to work, did you enjoy working? Why or why not? 3. Did you have ideas about how things could be done better at your first few jobs? Did you suggest changes to your boss? Where your ideas ever used? 4. When did you first get the idea of being your own boss or starting your own business? 5. Do you think you could run any business successfully? Why or why not? 6. How much time do you spend a week working? Would you like to work more or less? Explain. 7. How important do you think a high school education is to being a successful entrepreneur? A college education? 8. Of all your skills and abilities, which contributes most to your success as a business owner? Why? 9. What mistakes or weaknesses do you think most often lead to failure for entrepreneurs? 10. What advice would you give to someone who was considering starting their own business someday?

Kindergarten garden at LEAP

Make your own slide show at Animoto.

Commercials 2012

Original commercial project using student devices. Apps video star and splice were used for the effects.

Schneider Audo Project

The project provided three students, of various abilities, the chance to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a journal entry. Students were asked to write a journal entry describing how to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.

High Student - https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_AlJmlp33zNYSIEQc4-Fc3vAIFjaDjau6pzEUJ3Vl4eA5bbBDEVcZeNEHfmpx4-AkXiIsy8VOEe8SeoCmgEgDq_yr-ezBty3jQSJFZyT4AFaHYn8p_kkEM6gSVdkRXmc3fOMsdMzscLIjsv_q6f_CMqAuKhiQ

Low Student -
https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_AxaEigQQ_KDVzIiCHYs8aoaYTb5l9akmgKaaJicCU6I2e1A5DF-I1IcBRZl7ydRRi8HDNVXVsHSvkss9d1V9lv5xJH2kSsvGkfNJKNccb8hMXY7mGpQ8GnHIzcliaa1mhVrkfRBAce1wblC9_g0EcBUJFKuw

Mid-Level Student -
https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_BEpxVem7kCt58kzCJAdWiUvQrWz936H5RaQ1YTwriYmKdDtWcuTcmnEU03FDURUqHyNFokvc8cni_iwsqT1boj8CmvxbJ2es_hKL2degy19Y7lJnlgftDh5g9Bnc1OcFB8ROJ31UJlE8TsIILVOpwwYDzffg

Google voice--reading errors

Many of my students struggle with correct pronunciations when reading aloud in the class. In conjunction with another web based reading record program that I use, I decided to create a google voice account to assess he students oral reading errors.. It was extremely easy to set up and my students loved using it. I recorded several students reading various leveled books to determine which reading level was best as well as where the majority of the errors were occuring. It helped to cut my reading record assessments time in half and allowed me to access the data at home as well. This is an awesome new tool that I will definately use frequently! https://www.google.com/voice/fm/16667757169949883013/AHwOX_DIUbZXcE2PMJy1A14_Id8PKfd0TXZe7D3iB6EhmQnZr1SsH6pZYF9riVR9_bZL2oWTWN9UA79jBpdjL54tGw8D61lQyxIvcVWj15q5qUns9pbgmCNvy4i5pEw-tk0-U5UuCa3VJb4jnXlwmXa86NBnEDXB-A

Kerri Ryan's Audio Project

My audio project turned out to be a lot of fun for my students.  We are working on Famous American projects in our class and along with their power point presentations, they are going to take 3 or 4 facts about their Famous American and make it into a "Who Am I?" quiz/game.  I have only had 2 students do it so far as we are still researching.  However, they are excited to use Google Voice for many things in our classroom! There was nothing challenging after I met with Colin and he showed me how to embed Google Voice into my blog.  It's so simple.

Caleb's Famous American

Google Voice and Math vocab

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1355d857e4af6043

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1355da3e0b698335

The audio project was a little challenging for me.  I had my students call the phone number on google voice and tell me definitions to math vocab words.  We are really pushing knowing these definitions since the MAP test is right around the corner.  Google voice was not able to correctly transcribe any of the messages, even when I chose to talk.  This made it more difficult because I had to sit there and play each message instead of being able to quickly read an email.  My students thought it was fun but it is not something that I would put into my lesson plans for the day.

Laura Heller's Audio Project

http://mrshellersartroom.blogspot.com/2012/02/hailey.html

Practice Makes Perfect

I have a student who speaks very softly when she reads but  writes great stories and wants to read them to the class.  I demonstrated the audio and told her she could practice reading her story but she would have to speak louder so the class could hear it when I played it back.  It worked!  Now her classmates are picking the Writing Center and are looking forward to reading their books to the class.  She is now working on another book.

Engaged Student

Polar Bear, Polar Bear


I recorded a student reciting Polar Bear, Polar Bear by Bill Martin, Jr. It was amazing to witness a student that has difficulty engaging in the world around him, recite a book for an "audience." This student in particular loves to watch himself on video so he can replay it over and over, and over, and over, and OVER again, so I let him record himself using an iPad while being recorded on Audacity. I attempted to record him without the iPad and was unsuccessful- he wasn't nearly as attentive or interested in the activity. I will probably continue to use Audacity with this student.

The kids loved using Google voice

Here is a link to my Black history Blog. Bryan showed me how to incorporate google voice in a post. The children loved hearing their own voices. The challenge was to do it on my own. I had some difficulty but tried to brainstorm possible solutions. The children did have to speak directly into the phone and we practiced before we did our actual recording.



http://hobhm.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-learned-about-freedom-riders.html

In Art class at Kennerly, I recorded a student giving basic directions for a project we are finishing, weaving on a loom. I used google voice and it was very simple. I posted it with photos of projects on my blog:

http://kennerlyart.blogspot.com/

Lueking Audio Project

My two social studies classes completed a research project on a famous African American. They found their information, filled out an outline, and eventually filled out a "Star" sheet to share with the class. A few of the students recorded their "Star" sheet information which could be used along with a picture to share with parents.

Goedde Art

Goedde Art Audio

Hays Audio Project

For my project the students did research on Famous African Americans.  I set up a Google Voice account and they shared specific information about their person.  They are so excited about recording their information. When everyone has finished I will post on my blog for parents to hear!!!

Mrs. Johnston...students use iTunes and robots

My 5th grade Space and Robotics class explored the concept of a "flash mob" dance event by watching selected YouTube videos. Discussion revolved around how people participating in a flash mob event use social media to share songs, dance choreography, video, and more. While watching, we frequently paused the video and talked about how we might translate the human dance movements into robotic programming commands for our NXT LEGO robots. How could we use audio as an inspiration for a programming challenge! The class selected a song and opened it in iTunes. Working in small groups, each group worked to choreograph a robot dance for a 15 second portion of the song. The choreography was designed using programming commands that dictated robot movement and controlled any sensors added to the robot. The program was then downloaded to the robot for testing. Eventually all choreographed portions of the song will be combined, downloaded to all robots, and then the robots will, hopefully, have a flash mob dance to our song.

Audio Lesson-Beth Bridwell

My kindergartners have been working on rhyming words. I had them call my google voice number for "homework" and they had to give me some examples of rhyming pairs.

Vanessa's Google Voice

One person in my class gets to leave a google voice during the day at our silent reading time. At the end of the day we get to listen to them. That student reflects on how they read. Students are also allowed to call from home and leave me a message. The students pick one page (if it's a picture book) or one paragraph (chapter book). They practice reading it to themselves first, then they leave their message. It has been a hit in my class!

Giesing C10, audio update

I have set up a google voice account and looking to include an oral presentation option using it in my next unit.  I think the students might enjoy the option, just not sure what the assignment will be.

audio project

I have fallen and need direction to stand up again.  Wanted to try the google voice, but did not want to do the same reading assignment as others...need to work on a better idea.

Sorry I'm late to the game

Audio: In a fortnight (daily British expression now accomplished), I shall conduct IB Oral Exams in Lit using Audacity. I confess that this prospect triggers some anxiety in my 50-year old belly. But I shall overcome!

Google Voice in the German classroom

I have set up a Google voice account and had my 8th graders call in and describe their clothing to me in German.  I think it worked very well with 2 exceptions:
1.  I gave the kids the wrong number the first time (!), so it didn't work (obviously!).

2.  There are still about 20% of the kids who didn't call in at all and have a 0 on the assignment.  I think this number will decrease as I give more of these assignments.

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Laney, c10, Moehlmann, audio

I have been working on practice oral presentations for my IB theatre class using Google Voice and audacity. The google voice has a time limit of 3 minutes, so that was a bit of a problem. Students were calling in and leaving 7 voicemails and piecing them together. We ended up using Audacity in the classroom with borrowed headphones and mics from the technology department in order to help students record. Several other students used their own ipods and home recording devices. 

Derickson - Audio Project

Students created Power Point or PhotoStory presentation to represent their families.  They had to have pictures, captions, and audio in Spanish to go with each picture.  For example:  They would have a picture of their family at the beach, the caption would say "Mi familia a la playa"  and then they would add audio that would say who is in the picture, what they were doing, etc.

The challenging part of this was audio that would not work with PhotoStory on certain laptops and students who said they added audio, but it was no where to be found.  Also, PhotoStory would not play the story...the audio would be there but no pictures, so we had to view them like we were editing them (Not a huge deal, but frustrating.)

Audio Project

For my geometry project I enouraged the students to add and audio component to it. They turn the project in next week.

Audio Vocabulary Lesson

For my audio project my students took thier vocabulary lessons and instead of a weekly vocabulary quiz I had them use thier smart device to record them pronouncing the word correctly, giving the proper definition, and using it in a sentence. The lesson went very smoothly. I had my students buddy up with the person next to them and share thier smart devices to do the project. I had to lend my iphone to a pair that I trusted as well.

All in All the students really liked it. They have asked to do it again and I will. There are some issues that need to be tweaked a bit but it really worked well.

Audio Google Voice

The class was required to pick the woman they thought contributed the most to the women's equality movement. Each student had to give at least a 30 sec report on the woman of their choice.

The students were very poor in the 50% that called in . But the students who participated did a very good job. 

Campaign Radio Ads

My Government & Politics Class will be creating a 30 second radio ad with Google Voice.  Each campaign has media specialists that will work on radio ads and commercials for their campaigns. Students are working on these this week.  Lisa

Audio in Progress

Students have a culture presentation due (was supposed to be last week). Allowed them to either present in class or do voice over of a video. Presentations are in progress today. I know I had at least one student choose to do the voice over.

Roegner's audio lesson (or lack thereof)

I was planning on using Audacity to record students reading parts of Oedipus to listen to as we read it in class.  However, because of interruptions in our schedule, I'm just starting Oedipus tomorrow, and I also don't have time to teach the kids how to use something new right now.  Bryan talked to me about my plans, and I think what I might do now is use Google Voice to record the kids reading in class.  That way, we could play it back later if we needed to, or I could give it to kids who were absent.

Adventures in Audio

Initially I had planned to do something with Audacity for this assignment, but then one of my team members told me what she was doing with Google voice and I was intrigued.   So I switched mid-stream, set up a Google voice account, and am going to use it to provide my students with occasional extra credit opportunities and also to tie in current events to each of my units (which I never seem to find time to do in class).  I plan to give the kids their first "assignment" tomorrow, so . . . . we'll see how it goes.

Scheidenhelm Audio reflection

Hey Now!
This is Bret Scheidenhelm, one of the two excellent 8th grade Social Studies teachers at Sperreng.  I used my audio lesson as part of an assignment about the Fall of the Roman Empire.  Students went through several documents about the Fall of Rome (from our handy Mini DBQ binder) and had to identify the major causes of the end of the Roman Empire.  I had the students then create a short speech they would give to the Roman people if they were taking over the empire pledging the fix some of those problems.  I loved having them leave the message on my google voice account because multiple people could call at once, or they could call from home.  It would have taken all hour for every student to share their short speech but with google voice it was only a small part of class.  I am going to try and share one of the speeches, don't hate me if it doesn't work!

Audio feedback

I am using Google voice to get ongoing feedback from my general Biology class.  We are
covering some challenging topics, so I asked (...assigned) them to call or text my # and let
me know how they were "getting" our current unit.  Any topic still "fuzzy"? How's the pace? etc.
I've received great feedback - I can pinpoint which topics to revisit, and which ones have been
mastered.

Audio presentations

I plan to have a student who is a selective mute, present her Prism project in her resource environment.  We have yet to hear her speak outside of her resource environment.

NPR's The World

My audio lesson consisted of students listening to radio segments from the NPR broadcast The World.

In geography, we are currently studying Latin America.  For this lesson the focus was on the cultural and economic geography of the region.  I selected 6 different countries that were featured (relatively recently) on the show.  I downloaded the stories from the website and placed them into a forum on the Moodle.  The students were each assigned one country and could choose two others that they found interesting.

In the Moodle, each student had to write a one paragraph summary on each of their countries (for a total of 3 paragraphs), and then comment on their peers' summaries.  This gave the students an understanding of the different issues each country faces and allows them to synthesize an opinion about the current situation in that region of the world.

Overall, the lesson was a success.  The students were engaged and produced decent analysis of the stories.  I feel that each student gained a basis of knowledge on what life is like in each of the countries.  However, it was easy for some students to get off track and post comments that were not "scholarly".  I felt that I was fairly vigilant during the assignment; I did not catch anyone watching you tube videos.  But, I could not really monitor what the students were writing in their comments until it was posted to the forum.  After that I could delete it, but I would have to keep constantly updating the page to see the new comments.

Some snags:

• Not all of my students had headphones, so I had to borrow some from the library
• Some students preferred to read the content while listening, and searched for the transcripts online
• My foreign exchange student struggled with the audio and I told her to use the transcripts as well
• There will be some goofballs that don't take the assignment seriously and put inappropriate comments on the forum

Audio Blog

I though that using audacity was pretty simple.  The biggest issue I had was that there were times that my internal mic wouldn't pick up voices.  I spoke with another teacher who uses it and she said that it sometimes happens.  Once I got that out of the way, it was not difficult at all.  I also thought that my students did a very good job recording their voices and completing the assignment has it was intended.  I had asked the students to create a 30 second-1 minute radio ad for Andrew Jackson's presidency, much like you would hear on the radio today.  They were asked to state what they planned on doing for the country and what characteristics made them a good candidate.  Overall, I thought it was a success.

Sobeck's Smart Smurfs - audio

Some of students have created power points using their MAP vocabulary words and have added audio.  They then share them with the class and the younger grades.

Engineering Class using Audio boo

We have been following audio clips about Engineering and how it relates to today's students.  My students are learning that there are alot of jobs in the engineering field that are avalible.  I'm having students set up there own audio boo accounts and/or post comments about the boo's that we discuss in class.  The students have responded ok. 

http://audioboo.fm/boos/641371-ustrip03-space-the-final-frontier-not-for-these-kids

Audio Project Hausner

The students are creating virtual tours of Sperreng and Truman. They are each responsible for a different area of the school and are recording themselves using Google Voice. The students are putting a lot of effort into this because they want to be able to record themselves and then go take pictures of their area. The biggest challenge so far has been getting them to slow down and speak clearly into the phone. This is a sample of a student giving an introduction to Sperreng.

Technology in my classroom

This past month we watched TV and movie clips to emphasize tone and mood.  Students completed a chart that included designating mood and tone for each clip.  We utilize Elmo daily to post homework answers and students complete a blank paper on the board.  Mariano fixed my microphone!!!  YAY!!!  If anyone else has the problem of a great deal of static, he propped up my box so that it wasn't getting interference from all the heads:)  He also unplugged one of my speakers to eliminate feedback interference and static. 

Consequently, I am using my microphone hourly and saving my voice and throat!

Audio project

I'm using google voice.  I have had students call in to read explanations for concepts that they have written in their notebooks. The kids love doing it.  I play some of their messages in class.  They're engagement level is very high.  It does give kids who don't like to participate in class a voice.  I find it an efficient way to formatively assess kids understanding. Some drawbacks are that the transcriptions are abyssmal and even sometimes print obsceneties that weren't stated in the message.  I have also had students call more than once to leave long messages that have nothing to do with what we are doing in class.  The phone in my room works great for students that don't have a cell phone.  So far I have only used it for in class assignments.

prediction

Students are reading NIGHT by Elie Wiesel. They are required to post an audio summary and prediction for each assigned reading. Students have embraced the format because it is convenient and has removed the pressure of speaking in front of an audience.

Baby steps

I used the elmo (not for the first time) and underlined some of the projected words (for the first time) on my white board. The poem was an early draft of Robert Frost's "Design." My students were clearly inspired by my actions.

Student Created Videos

I had students bring in devices to film math movies. Students were put into groups of 3 (a filmer, a writer, and an explainer). I learned that movies must be less than 2 minutes to be e-mailed from an          i PodTouch.  I choose to do a movie, instead of just audio. I wanted students to see and hear the steps of long division.


Long Division Movies

Another movie example


Using Devices in Math Centers

My reading group practicing fluency

I decided to let my 9F reading group record themselves reading a story and then listen to the recording. We discussed fluency before listening and afterward. Then I gave them a chance to do the recording again. I was surprised at how much their fluency improved.


first attempt

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second attempt

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Kindergarten Photostory update

This week, my kindergarten friends picked a tree to adopt in Dressel's front yard. We will watch this tree change from winter, to spring, and into summer. We also planted tulip bulbs in the warm and moist ground. I took pictures of these lessons and then made a photo story to practice using it and to tell their parents about our tree. Our limited time on Wed. afternoon, did not allow me to have the students do the audio part of the photo story, however, now that I know how to do this, it will be easy for me to have them work with me, one at a time on this, when others are busy with an assignment.

Planned Audio Project - Oberkirsch

I have done this in the past and am planning to do it again when we reach the Unit is Social Studies.  Students participate in a performance activity.  They will enact a city council meeting where the council members struggle to make a decision for the common good of the citizens.  A news reporter reports on the meeting.  I record the meeting with the audio and play it back for students so they can see themselves in the performance activity.

Today I decided to video two of my students and have them choral read.  Attached is the video.

Audio Project completed

I made recordings of my students reading with Audacity. Each student read of their independent reading books for about a minute. I then had them listen to themselves on headphones. They were to check for fluency, accuracy, and inflections in their voices. Most of the students really enjoyed the opportunity to listen to themselves, and were surprised with the number of mistakes they made or how fast they read. Next time I will use a mic from the library. Some of my students read to softly for the computers mic, which made it difficult to hear on playback. I am trying to upload the WAV file of some of my students but I am unable to.

Brian's Audio Lesson

After finishing a lesson on international relations in the 1930s I assigned the students the following;question for homework to be answered using Google Voice: Who seems to be a greater threat to global peace and security in the 1930s: Germany or Japan? Explain your reasoning using specific events from the 1930s.

Because it was brief, all the students completed it (some with more supporting information and analysis than others). I accomplished my goal of having them think about and apply the course material, but thought it might have been more efficient just to have the discussion in class w/o the voice messages, rather than the next day after we listened to them as a class.

Audio Project Idea- Gregory

For my audio project I am having 4th grade students demonstrate an understanding of the math vocabulary that we have learned this year.  Each student will pick one of the words from our vocabulary board to give a definition and draw and example.  The students are using their own devices to record each other.  My goal is put together a video at the end with all of the words to show my future classes.  Here is a sample of one of the videos.

Audio Project

My audio project was having my fourth graders call in to my Google Voice number and reflecting on their definition of the February character trait, courage. My message prompted them to explain what courage means to them and give an example of a time they have shown courage. The kids really loved that they could "call" their teacher... Their responses were so adorable and the students enjoyed hearing each others reflections/stories. I will also be posting these on my blog as well. This was a homework assignment, so I had a great turn-out of student participation. No major challenges--the translation on Google Voice is pretty terrible, but that is probably because it is a newer feature, so I turned it off. Also, I noticed that when trying to call the number from our school classroom phone, it doesn't work. Also, a couple kiddos forgot to turn the phone of so I heard a lot of dead noise before they realized they needed to end the phone call, but it was pretty funny actually. Overall, I would say this was a successful project. I am excited to use it again and incorporate it in different ways!

Ashley Gordon



Here's the one where the student forgot to hang up... LOL (listen all the way to the end)

Philosophy Audio Project

My audio project was to have my Introduction to Philosophy class record their responses to the daily philosophy quote rather than to record them in their journals.  The quote for January 31:  " An improper mind is a perpetual feast" by Logan Pearsall Smith.  Students were allowed 10 minutes to go into the hall or outside to record their interpretation of the quote.  We played a few back (much to the chagrine of the recorders) and discussed their initial reactions.  I also printed out their dictated responses from Google Voice to show the students how they had been "interpreted" by Google.  Some of the interpretations were extremely far off from what the students had actually said.  I took a show of hands and no one wanted to continue recording their daily responses to the philosophy quotes since they felt that writing their responses in a journal allowed them to get better feedback from me! (We also had a firedrill during the time they were supposed to be recording their responses so this might have prevented the class from fully enjoying a more creative way to be "philosophical.")