Thursday, January 3, 2013
Chapters 8 & 10
Yes, you read that correctly. Skip Chapter 9. It's about Facebook and Ning and I figure if you don't know about Facebook, well, then you can talk to a neighbor! As far as I can tell, Ning is "sort of" a thing of the past (it was originally a social networking site like Facebook but you have to pay for it and why do that when you have FREE Facebook???). So please read Chapters 8 and 10. I have read your comments that you are struggling with this idea. Thank you for your honesty and for being open to something new! Let me know if it helps or not. Also let me say ANY way you decide to do this is fine. (Several of you posted, "I don't know if this is right or not but here's what I'm doing. . .") Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Great!!!! Thank you for trying. After you finish the book, just TRY some part of it. (PS Robbie Worthy has a cool place to social network with your kids--it's like FB but no one but you and your kids can get on it!!! Ask Robbie!!! She'll share.) So you can either do a blog (Lyn and Susan both have had great success w/this w/their babies! Ask them), social network (Robbie), wikis, podcasts, etc. Blog about what you try (you may partner together) and how well it goes or doesn't go. . . Please remember too that we have digital cameras & video cameras for check out in our KES library. . .
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I tried ScootPad with my speech students and really liked it! We can use it on the laptops or the iPad, so it's portable and easy to access. I found that it's versatile in meeting our speech goals, i.e., as the students answer my question on ScootPad, they are engaged in a language task with a healthy dose of spelling, vocabulary,and sentence building. I can even have the student with articulation goals repeat their answer, focusing on correct production of his/her target sounds. This has been a great way to incorporate social media and use of technology into my speech classroom. As with others who have used this, the only issue I have is with difficulty spelling words. I'm thankful for my one-on-one and small group speech sessions, as I could see where a full classroom needing help spelling words would take up a great deal of valuable time!
ReplyDeleteI also used ScootPad in my classroom. The students really enjoyed it. I would pose the question each day and the students would log on and answer it. They are not able to correspond with one another on the site, but it gives them the introduction to social media on a level they are more equipped to handle at this stage. It is easily used on the laptop or ipad so that any student is able to access it. I do not spell the words for the children, they are to stretch and slide the words which reinforces the Writing Spelling part of our Voyager Program. I think in time, if the site would open it up for the students to correspond with one another it would be a great resource to start early teaching the ideals of social media.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't spell the words for the kids either which really created a NEED for strategies to use for spelling. It is funny how something like this paved the way for a lesson on stretching and sliding sounds for spelling.
DeleteNot only did it create a NEED for a lesson on stretching and sliding sounds for spelling, but students were CONFRONTED with an authentic application for learning to spell. I believe that's when our learning (both student learning and our learning as a teacher) is the most powerful! It will be interesting to see how ScootPad continues to open avenues for learning. I also like Jeanine's point - that we need to have ways to introduce our students to social media at an appropriate age but also with an age appropriate vehicle.
DeleteThe kids really enjoy responding to questions on ScootPad. I really would love to get comfortable enough to do a project and create a real blog where the children document steps in completing the project, or knowledge gained, or SOMETHING! I understand the getting to a blog is not easy. (especially since I keep losing this site.) But with planning, collaborating, etc. I can see how a classroom blog or project blog could work. I am amazed at how 3rd grade is utilizing power points for classroom lessons (I have seen some examples-they are great!) My kids are still ahead of me when it comes to technology, but I realize it isn't going away and I must embrace it and learn to think like my kids. ha ha
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt that you will find a way to get the first graders on board with a blog project and it will be great! It's exciting how our third graders have embraced technology and are participating in such high tech lessons. I'm sure there will be a day very soon where our first graders, and even our kindergarten students, will be savvy enough with technology to be ready for such projects during the first six weeks of school! What an ever-changing world we are living in.....we have to hold on tight and enjoy the ride!
DeleteAutumn Arnett and I worked together with our students to create an anti-bullying rap podcast that integrated knowledge we gained from both book studies. We did several activities with our students to help them recognize the negative effects of bullying. We decided to do a rap video to keep the students engaged and help them remember some of the important things we have learned. Not all of the students wanted to be in the published video, but everyone practiced and had the opportunity to read, listen, and think about the lyrics. This was a learning experience for both of us since neither of us had any experience with podcasting. It was a little difficult to insert the lyrics, but overall it was easier than I expected and more importantly the students had an enjoyable learning experience!
ReplyDeleteI loved the podcast. That was a great idea - integrating the bullying lesson with the technology lesson. I am glad to read that all students had the opportunity to read, listen, and think about the lyrics even though there was only a few students from the two classes in the actual video. This learning experience will be something these students will remember for a number of years as well as have the chorus of the song instilled in their minds reminding them of not bullying.
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