So I’ve been discussing my project throughout the week with the tech coordinator at my school. We narrowed our content areas down to using the regions in Social Studies. I believe I’ll be teaching the Southeast or Middle Atlantic region. I’ll have to wait to see how far I get along. I decided to use the regions for the project, since the book we use in the classroom is old and boring. I’d like to spice up the content the students are learning. We’re still debating a bit whether or not we’ll use ComicLife or maybe Keynote. I’m hoping to have this decided by the end of next week.
9/17/07 Assignment September 17, 2007
Since I’m doing my project in my own classroom, I decided to correspond with our tech coordinator. We were thinking of trying a new tool with my students. It’s called ComicLife. We had a few ideas of how to use it. We were thinking of using it in Social Studies for teaching the regions. The students could research a state and find information to add to pictures. Another idea was having the students create a story and transfer it to a comic. These were our first two ideas that come to mind, but we are still trying to brainstorm. Please let me know what you think about using ComicLife for my project. I thought it would be neat to try, since it is something new to the students and me. I think they would really enjoy creating their own Comic and find it fun to use the information they are learning from a subject.
September 3rd Asssignment September 3, 2007
Since I already teach in a 4th grade class, I will be doing my technology project with my own class. I have 25 students in my class, and also I teach all subject areas. Please remember if you are doing your project in an elementary school, your project must be clear and it would be helpful if it matched up with the content the teacher’s are teaching. Not all teacher’s are tech savvy. I have a few ideas that I would like to try out with my students this year. I would like to do an animated PowerPoint story that the students write and design. I would also like to try doing Podcasts with my students. I would use this with groups of students who would research a certain topic. I would like to try creating iMovies with my students as well.
Welcome! September 3, 2007
Hi Folks and welcome to my blog. I will be using this blog to show my ideas and thoughts about a Lehigh course called Technology in School Settings.
Hello world! September 3, 2007
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