Saturday, November 21, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
BP15_2009113_Researching and Blogging about Web 2.0 Tools 6- Comments on Colleen's's Blog
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
1 comments:
- McKinley_Megan said...
This site sounds awesome and I will definitely look into "blogster", although I am loving the Blogger we are using for this assignment. My only suggestions with your video is that you have a great backdrop and picture, but I really think this would be effective if it then panned to you actually speaking about "blogster", so it really shows how passionate you are about this particular Web 2.0 tool. I love the music notes coming out of the play box and I would love to learn how you did an animated backdrop. I will definitely check out "blogster" and see if it is something I can use in my classes. Great job!
- November 15, 2009 4:09 PM
BP14_2009113_Researching and Blogging about Web 2.0 Tools 5- Comments on Hardy's Blog
- ETC - Orr_Toni_Blog said...
Hardy, Great video and sounds like a great site. Will have to check it out. Tried to post from the link you set and it would not let me. I can post only if I go on Blogger through Safari not Firefox. Any clue?
- McKinley_Megan said...
Hardy, this video is awesome! Someday you will have to teach me how to do all of this really cool things that you do with iMovie. This site sounded awesome and your delivery of it was awesome. My only suggestions were that it was hard to catch the name of the site because you were whispering and your mouth was cut off for a lot of the video. Other than that I loved it!!!! Such an inventive way to get people excited about your web 2.0 tool. I am definitely going to check out this site and I love that it also has links to other great sites, like rubistar, which is already a favorite of mine. Good job!
- November 15, 2009 4:00 PM
sunday, november 15, 2009
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BP13_2009113_Researching and Blogging about Web 2.0 Tools 5- Comments on Hardy Blog
sunday, november 15, 2009
2 comments:
- ETC - Orr_Toni_Blog said...
Hardy, Great video and sounds like a great site. Will have to check it out. Tried to post from the link you set and it would not let me. I can post only if I go on Blogger through Safari not Firefox. Any clue?
- McKinley_Megan said...
Hardy, this video is awesome! Someday you will have to teach me how to do all of this really cool things that you do with iMovie. This site sounded awesome and your delivery of it was awesome. My only suggestions were that it was hard to catch the name of the site because you were whispering and your mouth was cut off for a lot of the video. Other than that I loved it!!!! Such an inventive way to get people excited about your web 2.0 tool. I am definitely going to check out this site and I love that it also has links to other great sites, like rubistar, which is already a favorite of mine. Good job!
- November 15, 2009 4:00 PM
BP12_2009113_Researching and Blogging about Web 2.0 Tools_Pixton
This week I have been researching Comic Creator websites because I want create a comic with my class, but our school does not have Macs, so I couldn't use Comic Life. I finally found this great site called Pixton, which is free and very easy to use to create comics.
I think this is an amazing Web 2.0 tool because students can either use pre-made comics that they just fill in or they can create their own comics from scratch. Even the customizable comics are super easy to use and you can still choose from hundreds of characters, backgrounds, props, colors etc to really help create your own, professional looking comic. What is also really cool is that if your school likes this site, they can subscribe to it and then your students can share their comics with each other and then comment on each other’s comics.
I am planning on using this site for a project my students are doing on King Arthur. I am going to give them each one literary device and one component from the King Arthur Unit we have been discussing, and then the students must create their version of the legend, including both of their assigned elements. So for example, one student might get “similes” and “jousting”, so somewhere in their comic they must have a simile and an example of jousting. I think this is a great way to update the King Arthur Unit they were doing last year, where all they did was research their elements online and they create a journal where they discussed their elements. I am in love with Pixton and have been playing with it all weekend. I hate to say it, but Comic Life might have some serious competition. It is funny, I have been previewing Pixton with the librarian at our school, and she said she was worried because the comics can take so long to make and she was worried the students would want to do that much work. So, I agreed that it took a long time to sort of figure Pixton out, but that I had so much fun doing it, and she said “Ya, it was so fun, I didn’t even care it took me hours to finish!” This is the exact response I am hoping I will get from my students.
References
Pixton Comic Inc. (2008-2009). Pixton: No drawing necessary. Retrieved on November 15, 2009 from http://pixton.com/
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Hardy, I enjoyed your video explaining 'yacapaca', I have not used this Web 2.0 tool, but I will check out the website you provided and keep you informed of my progress if I decide to use this in my classroom.
Hardy,
What a great video. yacapaca sounds like such an interesting website. I'm always looking for new ways to check for fluency and comprehension in my class! I can't wait to check it out, thanks for the tip.
Hardy, How did I know you would have great sites! You rock! I want to be in your class! This sounds like a great site to use for many different things in the classroom. I love that students get instant feedback. I have been working with Reference and Research skills and have not been able to find a good way to assess what I teach - this sounds like the answer. Thanks for the informative video clip.
Hardy another great Video! Although, I am partial to the bugler one myself. Yacapaca is a great site and I love that students create their own "goals" before taking the mini quizzes because it really does create a student driven learning environment. It is even better when they have to decide at the end if they met their own goals. I like that the students can take the online assessments over and over if they choose to, so the focus is on the learning process, not just on the product. I think this is so important because often teachers will just give students an "F" on a test and move on without realizing that obviously the student didn't learn what you wanted them too and never will if you just move on. Overall, this was a great video and another job well done!