Tie Blog 2

 These are examples of sample student work.  These came from the students top tab booklets that they made after the lesson was taught over the Coastal Plains and sub-regions.  The Technology lesson plan was a challenge for me to complete but I was able to pull through and get things done.  The students really liked being able to type out their questions and responses in the Voice Thread.  My ct wants them to gain a better understanding of using a keyboard and typing in complete sentences versus using shortened responses for example "bc" for because. We have both noticed that many of the students that have the luxury of computers and cell phones have used this in their writing and even more so when typing things out.  I really liked how the students cane up with their own questions to ask each other and even more so their responses.  By doing my voicethread this way it made it into a threaded discussion.  I would have liked to change the amount of time it took to explain and introduce the use of voice thread to the students.  Many of them had not been exposed to a voice thread so it did consume much of my lesson time.

 Questions to my peers: What could i do to modify this lesson for lower grade levels and higher grade levels?

How can incorporate other subjects within a social studies lesson such as this one?

Pedagogical Affordances

Bloom's Taxonomy


Story Board


VoiceThread 
Lesson Plan

Coastal Plains.mpg

TIE BLOG

 I am sticking with my initial plan of covering Social Plains.I will be covering the Coastal Plains region.
DIGITAL BLOOM’S TAXONOMY & MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES


Affordances and PedagogicalImplication

VoiceThread

Lesson Plan

Story Board

TIE Lesson Ideas

After going back and forth between Social Studies, Math or Science as possible content areas to use my TIE lesson i decided to switch it back to Social Studies. I discussed this with my CT and she thought it would be a great idea to intergreate technology to breathe a bit of life into the regions of Texas. I am covering the Coastal Plains regions. This is the largest region of them all and is broken up into smaller areas. I talked it over with my CT and for my lesson 10/13/2011 I present my VT to the students and have them take notes on the five major areas. They are going to make a Top-Tab Book (dina zykes flip which is awesome!!) that will include their own pictures and descriptive sentences.  After my lesson I will take pictures of portions of their flip books and pull students by groups to the computer to record their voices.  My ct thought it would be a great idea to have the student go back and review this information. The doodling tool will be used to underline important facts because our class is studying note taking and i thought this would be a great idea for practice. I was a bit worried about this TIE lesson because I am not the most tech savy person but I am actually excited to implement it! Wish me good luck!!

Using Google Presentation in the Classroom

I think interactive technology is a must in today's classrooms. We rely on technology more now than ever and is now apart of our everyday life. I would like to use Google Presentations in my future classroom. I think something simple as Google Docs is a great way for collaborative get work to take place within the classroom. Students can log in to their assigned Google assignment and add their portion or ideas. Google Docs also has a sort of slideshow presentation like PowerPoint that can be assigned to small groups or pairs over any subject.

Voicethread Practice

Reflection(Workshop Activity 1.3)

The voicethread that I viewed was over Multiple Meaning Words. This was done by a fourth grade class using their own original pictures and sentences. The one thing I liked most about this VT is that the students use the multiple meaning word as a verb and noun in different sentences. Here are our Bloom's Taxonomy and Pedagogical Implications Framework for this Voice Thread.