I spent some time yesterday just viewing other people's webct responses under the assignment 3 heading. I was primarily interested in the stuff on digital storytelling because that is what my paper is about. I found it interesting that we all visited the same sites however there were a couple that I had not visited including one on managing your classroom when doing digital storytelling, and another site offered some great rubrics for evaluating the student work after it is complete.
Tonight, I took some time to go through everyone's blog entries. It was actually really enlightening to see what other people in the course are talking about with their blogs. One idea I got was to use digital storytelling in a reading buddy format. This idea came from Steven. This way an older student pairs up with a younger one to create a story together (perhaps assigning different roles to each reader). This would be a great way to get older kids working with young ones because sometimes the older kids can't be motivated to do this.
I also learned about the Tumble Book hyperlink at the Brampton Public Library courtesy of Mary Ann. I want to get my students to create e-books this year. I even just ordered a microphone off of Tiger Direct today so I can get started on this. If any of you are interested in making e-books or talking books with your students, check out this awesome pdf manual for making these books with the Powerpoint program. I learned so many tricks with Powerpoint that I never knew before!
http://www.ace-centre.org.uk/download/Powerpoint%20V3.pdf
Anastasia Rioux
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