To create something new for graduation, I am going to have the 6th graders upload a baby to Blabberize and then record a "Who Am I?" introduction. Hopefully we can embedded the introductions into this blog and just play them continuously. We''ll see... First try:
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Voki
I created a Voki to introduce this challenge to my staff. I loved being to add an accent for my voice - always wanted an accent! I would like to use Vokis more with students. It would be fun to use for biography projects, introduce a new unit, have students re-create a character from a book, etc. Just wish it would stop snowing so we had more time to work on these challenges at school....
Friday, January 28, 2011
I just made a Voki. Click below to play the message:
Go to the DLC (http://28things.wikispaces.com/DLC+-+7) to complete this challenge. There is even information on a number of tools available that allow you to track your reading, share comments and recommend books to friends. Remember to post your impressions on your blog and email Karin when you have completed the challenge. This challenge is due by Fri., Feb. 11th.
Friday, January 14, 2011
DLC #5 - Listening
Pandora - it plays all day long on my Promethean board in my computer lab. I recently found Acoustic - New Age which I love. It gives a calm, relaxed feeling not only for me but my students when they are in the lab. I turn it on at 8:15 and it goes off at 3:30. Days when I forget to turn it on - the students or the staff remind me that I need to turn it on!
iTunes U - not my favorite. In my last blog posting I mentioned that I like websites that are easy to navigate and fairly easy to search and find what I am looking for. iTunes U failed greatly on those parameters. Not a site I would pick first to find information. So sorry, Apple. Most of the time I would say they are top notch but not here.
iTunes U - not my favorite. In my last blog posting I mentioned that I like websites that are easy to navigate and fairly easy to search and find what I am looking for. iTunes U failed greatly on those parameters. Not a site I would pick first to find information. So sorry, Apple. Most of the time I would say they are top notch but not here.
DLC #4 - Video
WatchKnow is one of my favorite websites. It is well organized and for the most part, fairly easy to search and find what I am looking for. When I am looking for something, I want to be quick and efficient and this website allows me to succeed. One of the Massachusetts Technology Literacy Standards is Standard 1 (Grades 3-5): Demonstrate proficiency in the use of computers and applications, as well as an understanding of the concepts underlying hardware, software, and connectivity. I found a Magic School Bus video (always a kid favorite) entitled The Magic School Bus Gets Programmed which explains the workings of a computer in easy kid language - might even be a good video for adults! The direct link is http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=9664
Friday, December 10, 2010
Google Docs update...
This challenge definitely was a favorite of many. We even started a collaborative document here at LES for grade level phrases used for teaching bullying. The story we created for the challenge had many twist and turns. I have added the story below for others to read!
We will be using this picture to create a collaborative story. We are a very creative group so I am very intrigued to see how our story will evolve! I have started the story line - now you just have to contribute. After you have made your contribution to the story, add your name in parentheses so we know who contributed. Once you are finished you can go to FILE and select SAVE NOW (or you can always use Apple S). If it is grayed out, Google Docs has already saved it for you. Feel free to come back to the story and add more to the story line!
Chapter 1
To see them, you would think, “What an odd couple!” How they met and developed their unique relationship, however, is an amazing story in itself. (Karin Gravina)
wearing a hat?” (Gotcha! Ellen)
Chapter 2
One month earlier...(Anna)
It was night time. Josie the little brown mouse sat with her 25 sisters and brothers and their exhausted mother in the a room with hard walls. They sat with their backs next to the big, round, blue and red pond that was filled with hard, round things. Occasionally giant humans with huge heads and smaller bodies would jump into this skyscraper, and thrash around. They made horrible screeches and the pond shook. When this happened, Josie and her 25 sisters and brothers and their exhausted mother scrunched down and put their paws over their eyes, expecting the worst. But the big headed humans with the smaller bodies would always go away and the mouse family crept back to lean against the blue and red pond. Josie’s 25 brothers and sisters, and their exhausted mother were happy living in this hard walled room with the blue and red pond. They got to eat lots of snacks left by the big headed humans, and they were content. But Josie yearned for adventure. (Judy)
Before heading out for adventure, however, Josie had to clear up a huge conundrum. She was having an identity crisis.
“Mama,” Josie inquired innocently,”what am I?”
“Am I a mouse or a hamster?”
Josie’s mother gazed lovingly at her daughter and gently cooed, “Well...” (Ellen)
“You’ve got to be kidding. You are supposed to help me feel better, Mom.” (Genie)
“You can decide that yourself, my darling,” said her mother. Confident that she could be whatever she wanted to be, Josie nosed her way out of the hard-walled room into the larger world of big-headed, small-bodied humans. (Ghostwriter)
Josie had not gone far when she heard the sharp voice of Ignatious Bottlecrumb, the science lab teacher say, “Looks like one of the mamsters has gotten loose. And look at that spiky fur and those prominent whiskers! It must have elevated levels of testosterone. I must bring it back to the lab for tests.”
Without warning or ceremony, Josie was scooped into a trash bin and whisked down the hall. The colors of the walls shifted from the cozy pastels of the Kindergarten room to the warm cork boards of the hallways to the sterile white of the science lab. Ignatious shook Josie from the basket into a tiny wire enclosure. “Trapped again,” she thought. But this cage was far smaller than her prior dwelling. She felt the prick of a needle in her thigh, and then, for a time, she felt no more. (Bill)
The next time she opened her eyes the dark room startled her. She jumped up to race away when she crashed into the horrible wire walls of her prison. Just then the lights flashed on, causing her temporary blindness. A warm voice cooed over her, “now who have we got here? My little granddaughters would love you, little one! Surely we have a nicer cage for you somewhere...” Ray’s deep kind voice comforted the born-to-be-wild rodent. Was he serious?
“Yes, in the kindergarten closet they have a much better cage. I’ll be right back!”
Jumpin’ Josie (for that was what our heroine came to be called in the Legend of Leverett) was wide awake now. (Dorothy)
But the effects of the needle prick to her thigh and the memory of the boisterous barrage of banter from Ignatius Bottlecrumb resurfaced in her tiny temporal lobe with a veritable vengence. “Mamster my pajamster!” she cried. She could stand it no more. “Who am I?” I must flee from the kindly Ray and find my true identity.” As she prepared to leap from her wire prison once again, a nearby voice croaked........... (Karen Gallagher)
A Collaborative Story
We will be using this picture to create a collaborative story. We are a very creative group so I am very intrigued to see how our story will evolve! I have started the story line - now you just have to contribute. After you have made your contribution to the story, add your name in parentheses so we know who contributed. Once you are finished you can go to FILE and select SAVE NOW (or you can always use Apple S). If it is grayed out, Google Docs has already saved it for you. Feel free to come back to the story and add more to the story line!
Chapter 1
To see them, you would think, “What an odd couple!” How they met and developed their unique relationship, however, is an amazing story in itself. (Karin Gravina)
Murgatroid tumbled over and over again in the darkness, afraid to even think about where he would stop or what would happen to him next. His heart pounding and his fur drenched, he opened his eyes. (Vivian)
His fur was wet and sticky. He could hear the rushing water under him. He looked up and blinked several times to clear his eyes. It was as dark as a wolf’s mouth. He thought he heard a noise....( Tracey)
It was that first grade class coming to the pond for their yearly visit to the vernal pool. They dipped their nets into the water and hoped to catch the first frog. The class never thought that they would also find that runaway hamster from the kindergarten class. What should they do?(Alison)
“It’s Jumpin’ Josie!” shouted Raoul, the little curly haired lad who had netted the wee beastie. “But what’s that green blob underneath her? Is it a pile of leaves and pond muck?”
“No, it’s a frog!” bellowed Alice in amazement. “What is Jumpin’ Josie doing riding on the back of a giant bullfrog? Is it a rodeo?” “No, it’s Mr. Froggy. He went went a courtin’ Miss Mousie!” burbled Fletcher. (Bill)
Meanwhile, 6th graders tumbled out of their classroom door and dashed to the field.
Science whiz Clarissa overheard the conversation at the pond. She considered the younger children’s observations a bit immature. She thought, “Every knowledgeable 6th grade student would instantly recognize that this isn’t a “courting” situation. Romance across species is impossible.” So, with adolescent confidence Clarissa declared, “Can’t you see that the frog iswearing a hat?” (Gotcha! Ellen)
Chapter 2
One month earlier...(Anna)
It was night time. Josie the little brown mouse sat with her 25 sisters and brothers and their exhausted mother in the a room with hard walls. They sat with their backs next to the big, round, blue and red pond that was filled with hard, round things. Occasionally giant humans with huge heads and smaller bodies would jump into this skyscraper, and thrash around. They made horrible screeches and the pond shook. When this happened, Josie and her 25 sisters and brothers and their exhausted mother scrunched down and put their paws over their eyes, expecting the worst. But the big headed humans with the smaller bodies would always go away and the mouse family crept back to lean against the blue and red pond. Josie’s 25 brothers and sisters, and their exhausted mother were happy living in this hard walled room with the blue and red pond. They got to eat lots of snacks left by the big headed humans, and they were content. But Josie yearned for adventure. (Judy)
Before heading out for adventure, however, Josie had to clear up a huge conundrum. She was having an identity crisis.
“Mama,” Josie inquired innocently,”what am I?”
“Am I a mouse or a hamster?”
Josie’s mother gazed lovingly at her daughter and gently cooed, “Well...” (Ellen)
“You’ve got to be kidding. You are supposed to help me feel better, Mom.” (Genie)
“You can decide that yourself, my darling,” said her mother. Confident that she could be whatever she wanted to be, Josie nosed her way out of the hard-walled room into the larger world of big-headed, small-bodied humans. (Ghostwriter)
Josie had not gone far when she heard the sharp voice of Ignatious Bottlecrumb, the science lab teacher say, “Looks like one of the mamsters has gotten loose. And look at that spiky fur and those prominent whiskers! It must have elevated levels of testosterone. I must bring it back to the lab for tests.”
Without warning or ceremony, Josie was scooped into a trash bin and whisked down the hall. The colors of the walls shifted from the cozy pastels of the Kindergarten room to the warm cork boards of the hallways to the sterile white of the science lab. Ignatious shook Josie from the basket into a tiny wire enclosure. “Trapped again,” she thought. But this cage was far smaller than her prior dwelling. She felt the prick of a needle in her thigh, and then, for a time, she felt no more. (Bill)
The next time she opened her eyes the dark room startled her. She jumped up to race away when she crashed into the horrible wire walls of her prison. Just then the lights flashed on, causing her temporary blindness. A warm voice cooed over her, “now who have we got here? My little granddaughters would love you, little one! Surely we have a nicer cage for you somewhere...” Ray’s deep kind voice comforted the born-to-be-wild rodent. Was he serious?
“Yes, in the kindergarten closet they have a much better cage. I’ll be right back!”
Jumpin’ Josie (for that was what our heroine came to be called in the Legend of Leverett) was wide awake now. (Dorothy)
But the effects of the needle prick to her thigh and the memory of the boisterous barrage of banter from Ignatius Bottlecrumb resurfaced in her tiny temporal lobe with a veritable vengence. “Mamster my pajamster!” she cried. She could stand it no more. “Who am I?” I must flee from the kindly Ray and find my true identity.” As she prepared to leap from her wire prison once again, a nearby voice croaked........... (Karen Gallagher)
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