VoiceThread in Art!
Patty Sheridan (elementary art) teamed up with Cassidy Dailey and her first grade class to create a VoiceThread project. Their cave art project was a cross-curricular project, combing art and vocabulary.
Tags: voicethread, ES, art
PhotoStory 3
Another popular tool our WCS teachers have embraced is Microsoft’s PhotoStory 3. This tool has proved to be very quick and easy to use! Edgar Brown has used PhotoStory to create art lessons to post on his webpage as well as individual student projects.
Here are a couple links to Edgar’s PhotoStory projects:
Principles of Art
The Colorwheel
Tags: photostory, MS
Iditarod VoiceThread
Carol Fox’s third grade class created a VoiceThread for their Iditarod project. I love that one of the Iditarod mushers commented on their class project!
Tags: voicethread, ES, iditarod
Wow. Long time, no post…
It has been months and months since I last posted to this blog. I was hoping to use this as a tool to keep the WCS community updated with the projects and ideas surrounding technology integration at Williamson.
I’m hoping to take a little time today to get these projects and ideas posted. The teachers currently using technology in their classroom deserve the recognition!
Google Reader
As you know, (sorry for not posting in months!!) I am an avid Google Reader fan. I just came across an excellent tutorial that I thought I’d pass along.
Enjoy!
Web 2.0 Overload
Wow, it’s been quite a while since I last posted…
I have spent the better part of the morning creating a workshop on Web 2.0 tools (or so I thought). Just as I was finishing I decided to check out Robin Good’s blog for a couple of new web 2.0 goodies. After 20 minutes, my Flock taskbar was inundated with open tabs, all ready for my perusal. I DON’T HAVE THE TIME OR ENERGY TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THESE TOOLS! Just as I think I’ve found the next cool thing, I stumble upon something else that is entirely new and just as great! When will it stop? Though its exciting, I worry about where this is all headed. How can we expect our faculty and staff to keep up with the tools when the integration specialist can barely keep up? Will people eventually get over it and quit looking for new tools? How many more social networking sites can possibly be created this week? What’s next?
Projects at WCS
Lately, my afternoons have been consumed by workshops, inservice classes, and one-on-one sessions. With all of the technology integration happening at Williamson, I decided it was finally time to start posting about it. I have created a new page at the top of my blog aptly named, WCS Projects. Feel free to check out what’s happening at Williamson and post a comment letting us know what you think!
Teacher Podcasts
What if we looked at podcasts in Williamson differently? Sure, the podcasting with students is great; it’s working out wonderfully and people are loving the idea. I know it’s still a relatively new idea in the district, but what if teachers were to start podcasting? Teachers could create short podcasts reviewing main ideas for quizzes, exams, and regents. Many of our students already have an iPod or MP3 player. They could download the data at night and listen to the review on the bus before school, on the track as they practice, or in the computer lab during a study hall. They could listen to their own teachers explain and describe difficult content before walking into the doors of their classrooms. Because we can name the files and give them ID3 tags, we can organize our WCS podcast content by subject area, teacher, narrator, grade level, curriculum content, or whatever! The possibilities are endless! What else could we do with our new digital voice recorders?
technorati tags:podcasting, ipod, mp3, williamson+central
Google vs. Flickr
Educational Application Analysis
Source: Harry Tuttle
What would you use in your classroom?
