I started out with Audioboo. I signed up through my twitter account and was brainstorming of ways I can use these in my class. Then I read the small print. I costs money if you use it too much. So now I'm going to skip that. We have no money.
I looked at audioboo again and the. Project they did is similar to one we did with photostory 3 a few years ago. Its almost identical. I think with a little more exposure to Audioboo I can come up with some more ideas of how to use it with my unique situation of not seeing the students. In many places the Audiboo lists as free and then another place it lists as 6.99 a month.
Right now I have my 12-1-1 students learning how to read aloud a children's book to a child. I received an article about how we should read a book aloud. I took the article a created a month a lessons. They are practicing the steps mentioned in the article. The article listed about 30 good read aloud books. Ni borrowed all of them from the public library and had them choose their one book. Soon we will be reading to pre k students. I am going to do this again next year, but I will include podcasts. I will have the students do a podcast for the first time they read the story. Then when they think they are ready to read to PreK, I will have them do another podcast. From there, they can critique themselves to see if they feel they are really ready to read to a child. I have listened to the each student read. I can hear where they need improvement and make suggestions, but they don't hear what I hear. With a podcast, I think they will then have more of an understanding of what I am suggesting.
I went in and rediscovered audioboo after watching the video on how to do it. I now have it on my iPhone and surface. I even sent the info and podcast to my niece in Aurora, Colorado. She done with school now, but she teaches photography. The students can take a photo and do a podcast of what the photo is about or whatever she requires. Heck, I can do it with my students, to. Except, I won't be grading the photo.
I saved the article with Mr. Peachey, so I can refer to it for showing other middle school teachers how cool this. I think I will send the a podcast to encourage them, but first, I need to try it with a few of my students.
I haven't heard the word screencasting before. I have done Jing in the past. I did some jings to show people how to access our databases in my webpage. It's been a while since I did it. Since I can't be in the library with my students, I am going to use jing on the steps to do all of these. My Teacher Assistant that teaches the actual class will be relieved that students can watch instructions at their own pace instead of her trying to help everyone at once. I hope one of these links work ok.
http://audioboo.fm/boos/2215241-thing-7-julie
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
thing 4 RSS
Ok now I know what RSS is. I had no idea what people were talking about. L actually thought that it was a counter to see how many people visit your site. I watched the video on RSS and as I was watching it I created a dashboard with the video. I found that Google reader is no more, so I used www.dashboard.bloglines.com. I connected my twitter and Facebook to it. I tried to connect our school webpage, but I am on a Surface, with no mouse and I can't figure out how to copy and paste. I plan to add more to my dashboard. It is in account jfeenaughty@me.com and my password is Alex's daughter. I wrote that out so I won't forget. It wasn't difficult at all. I have lots more that I am planning on adding to it. It is better than having my favorites on 3different devices.
I am already using symbalooedu as my main page for library. I started using that back in appaluuza thing. It is my home page for my library website. I am going to keep that going until something better comes song. I like how it has links for each of the classes that come into the library. When a teacher asks for me to do something with their class, I create a symbaloo block on my main page with the teacher's name. Then the students can access the information that we need for class. It is all conveniently saved until next year and I usually need to check the links and make some modifications. I don't have to start over at square 1. It is so easy to update!! I had to type this in twice because I had too many of my blogs open and accidentally wiped out Thing 4. Rss is going to be another huge time saver. I am looking forward to adding to it.
**I am the middle school librarian to 5-7 grades. I have never met the students and I do all the library lesson plans and grading. It really is not a good situation. Next year they all get their own iPads. I couldn't be more excited about those library classes. I am totally rewriting my curriculum and will get to know these students through web tools.
I am already using symbalooedu as my main page for library. I started using that back in appaluuza thing. It is my home page for my library website. I am going to keep that going until something better comes song. I like how it has links for each of the classes that come into the library. When a teacher asks for me to do something with their class, I create a symbaloo block on my main page with the teacher's name. Then the students can access the information that we need for class. It is all conveniently saved until next year and I usually need to check the links and make some modifications. I don't have to start over at square 1. It is so easy to update!! I had to type this in twice because I had too many of my blogs open and accidentally wiped out Thing 4. Rss is going to be another huge time saver. I am looking forward to adding to it.
**I am the middle school librarian to 5-7 grades. I have never met the students and I do all the library lesson plans and grading. It really is not a good situation. Next year they all get their own iPads. I couldn't be more excited about those library classes. I am totally rewriting my curriculum and will get to know these students through web tools.
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