I have been looking through too many topics at once and need to refocus. I started with Animated story telling moved quickly into coding and now I think I am back to Animated Storytelling. I have been trying to find a good, quick and easy way to incorporate this into my current projects. I do a lot of computer projects, but want to expand with 2.0 digital tools with my students.
So after getting more distracted with http://sdst.libguides.com/newtools I learned about web 3.0 which was fascinating. I try to tell my 5th graders about this. It reminds how I felt when the WWW first started and how you clicked on one thing and ended up 7 miles from what you were originally searching. I do hop there may be a solution for not only the amount of data on the web, but how it could be better organized. As frustrating as searching was then, we have added billions and billions of pages and can get overwhelmed when the answer you are looking for doesn't appear first....
From here, I started looking at the http://www.slideshare.net/ctjonline/integrating-technology-into-the-classroom-for-young-learners. What drew me in was young learner's in the title. There is great material and ideas for older students, but I want to bring easy and quick ideas down to my K-5 students more often. Then I ran into this project:
https://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/a-tour-around-the-u-s-a-4269258
What a great idea. Slapping forehead! Why didn't I think of this too! I just completed with my third grade class a trip around the USA where I had them make posters to display and present their states after having created "I wonder questions" and using the power of persuasion to convince people to travel to their chosen state. How nice would it have been to do this project, have them research, make a poster (or even use WORD to add pictures and gain typing experience), then load things into mixbook or the like and have a digital presentation on the smartboard and to share with their families at home! This is so going in my to do file!
Still in the young learners site they shared: http://zunal.com/index.php to create webquests. I made webquests about 15 years ago when I first started the library program. I taught myself HTML coding to create the page as nothing link this existed then. I love the ease of making a webquest with this site. I should pullout the ones I did then and put them into this site for continued use. Sadly I believe the geocities site was taken down several years ago and it would be nice to have access to my work once again. Not to mention the many completed ones at this site to use and explore. Just look at all the ones for the K-2 level on technology skills!! http://zunal.com/xbrowse.php?Curriculum=111&GradeLevel=101&Page=1 Digital citizenship and keyboarding! Perfect!
Now to sit down with my planbook and work these new ideas in... maybe even as my observation lessons.
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Love the US tour/mixbook idea. A good one for next year then! And Zunal, interesting one! New to me, thanks for sharing. Do you remember that old site (ages and ages ago) that would build webquests? Might be more than 15 years ago though. Now I'll be trying to remember all night....
ReplyDeletehttp://webquest.org/ was one of them. I built mine on geocities and added them to this site.
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