I entered phase 2 of my classroom blog yesterday. I found a great video on Teacher tube in which a class of 6 and 7 year olds from New Zealand describe how they use their blog. Yesterday, I showed my class this video and each child came to the computer and dictated his/her sentence about something learned in our latest unit. They thought it was very cool that anyone who has internet could see our pictures, videos and writing. I will continue to integrate this into our weekly goals to share learning, have the children do more of the hands on work.
This past week, C. Picha and I co-taught our integrated lesson to her fourth graders. The topic was anti-bullying and the project created at the end of the lesson was a poster relating to one of the four OLWEUS rules. The students were excited about creating a poster that was going to be displayed somewhere in the school, but when we explained that they would also be sharing their posters on voicethread, the enthusiasm was clearly visible on their faces and comments. Not only were they extremely motivated to get to started, they all created high quality posters and enjoyed writing scripts explaining their poster. This experience reaffirms why it is so important for educators to continue to find ways to integrate the use of technology into their daily lessons and activities.
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