Website

Here's the link to Cool Kids - Nouns

Burdock the Warlock by Wendy Mary Cruse - Fluency Standard

This is one of the poems we use to work on our fluency as we read.  I would use a project like this in a couple ways; 1rst, to motivate children to want to learn the poem (or any other poem for that matter). I'll show this to next year's class to show them what they will be doing/learning. 2nd, as a learning tool - the students can sit at a computer with headphones, and practice learing the poem. The students loved making the video, and they also love watching it.

Webquest

 This is a webquest I made at Zunal.com. It was relatively easy to make but a little difficult to adapt for my primary special ed kids. We'd have to work as a group on this one, and I don't see them making one on their own. It should turn out to be a good small group, guided activity.

Screencast - To leave a message on our blog.

I've started a classroom blog for my classroom. The students love it, but report back to me that their parents are having trouble leaving us comments. I suspect it is because they are not signed in, so I made this screencast to help them get signed in so they can leave us comments. The next step would be to have a student record the screencast, but teaching primary self-contained special ed, I'm not sure this will be  an efficient tool to use. I used screencast-o-matic.com to make and export the video.

Google Earth - My Educational Journey

In an effort to encourage my students to think about their education, I thought it would be helpful for them to take a google earth tour of where they're at (educationally and physically) and where they might go. After answering questions in this tour, they might make their own tour with different schools.
My Educational Journey

Evidence of Networking Participation

Other Blogs I Followed

Video Discussion Forum

Sample E-mail from Chad

The most informative way I participated in networking was simply asking the people around me in class, "How did you do that?". I then would go to their blog and see their example, or blog entry. I followed other students' blogs through my reading list on my blog. I left messages at; Eric's, Samantha's, and Chad's blogs. I also posted on the Video Editing Discussion Forum. I also E-mailed other students with questions.

Slideshow with pictures taken by students

This is a slideshow made from pictures we took in class. This is a way we introduced coins and their values. I first uploaded the pictures to Picasa -

Money Slideshow

then made the slideshow using Animoto. The process is so easy, I think my students will eventually be able to make similar projects independently.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.