Take a moment and share your thinking about this discussion! Any "wow" moments about its use? Any big disadvantages or advantages? Has anyone made plans to use this in the classroom in the next few weeks? Help us learn from you. Post your thoughts in the comment section....
Showing posts with label VoiceThread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VoiceThread. Show all posts
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
The New Writing
There is no doubt that texting, Facebook, My Space, instant messaging, YouTube, blogging, etc that our students are writing more than they ever have, but not so much in an academic way that is very important to the learning processing. Intrusion of out of school writing interfers in our classrooms when we start seeing LOL, OMG, and the many other writing short cuts appear in formal writing in our classrooms. No doubt, creating text as a form of literacy is still as important as it was 30 years ago and it probably more important. We struggle with how to bridge what happening on social media and networking inside the classroom.
It is important we find ways to teaching writing in a way that makes use of the new tools that effectively scaffold writing, and yet not adopt every kind of technology because it exists. We need to look reflectively as our present reading and writing process model and figure out how to incorperate useful technologies into that model. As we have discussed when we were face to face, we only need to know and understand the tools benefits, limitations, advantages, and disadvantages as we prescribe that tool with the learner. We need to come familiar with the tools but we don't have to be the expert. Perhaps we need to know how the tool might fit the learners learning style.
I have an Iphone and the applications I have on my Iphone are unique tools that fit me. The voice recorder, the Ipadio app, to do list, calendar, and camera are unique for me. And I know there are literally hundreds more out their that are similar.
One question was asked earlier this week! There are so many tools I cannot decide which one to introduce or use in my classroom this year. I don't know how to make the technologies fit in my classroom. Here is what I believe- I think a good starting point is Voice Thread. If I were a science teacher that does lots of hands on experiments, I would get students to take take pictures of the learning process during the experiment. Then dump the pictures into a VoiceThread and put them in a logistical order. Then have student use the VoiceThread to make comments about each step, narrate the experiment, tell what they know, summarize, and share with a larger audiences.
Please take a moment to share in the comment section about how you would use VoiceThread or how you plan to use VoiceThread in your content area?
Bill
It is important we find ways to teaching writing in a way that makes use of the new tools that effectively scaffold writing, and yet not adopt every kind of technology because it exists. We need to look reflectively as our present reading and writing process model and figure out how to incorperate useful technologies into that model. As we have discussed when we were face to face, we only need to know and understand the tools benefits, limitations, advantages, and disadvantages as we prescribe that tool with the learner. We need to come familiar with the tools but we don't have to be the expert. Perhaps we need to know how the tool might fit the learners learning style.
I have an Iphone and the applications I have on my Iphone are unique tools that fit me. The voice recorder, the Ipadio app, to do list, calendar, and camera are unique for me. And I know there are literally hundreds more out their that are similar.
One question was asked earlier this week! There are so many tools I cannot decide which one to introduce or use in my classroom this year. I don't know how to make the technologies fit in my classroom. Here is what I believe- I think a good starting point is Voice Thread. If I were a science teacher that does lots of hands on experiments, I would get students to take take pictures of the learning process during the experiment. Then dump the pictures into a VoiceThread and put them in a logistical order. Then have student use the VoiceThread to make comments about each step, narrate the experiment, tell what they know, summarize, and share with a larger audiences.
Please take a moment to share in the comment section about how you would use VoiceThread or how you plan to use VoiceThread in your content area?
Bill
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