Sorry this is late getting on here....I thought it posted by obviously not if I am rewriting this.
So this past week I was sitting in one of our collaboration meetings for our International Baccularette unit (which is a cross curricular program to help prepare students for the 21st century) we were discussing our next unit of study which is culture. And bam...it struck me that we could use digital story telling to have studnets write personal narratives or to recreate a cultural story. I brought that up to my colleagues and they were excited to try it! So that got the ball rolling....I then went to my principal with the idea and he was excited as well. So now I am in the process of getting information for the software that we need.
Then funny enough, I was at a wedding this weekend and was talking to a kindergarten colleague of mine and we were talking about technology and she was so excited to share that she knows how to use Animoto, but was limited to only 3o second clips and that's when I told her about VideoSpin. So I will be showing her that sight this week!
I am so excited to incorporate the digital storybooks!
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Way to go, Anita. It looks like you are spreading the influence! It's fantastic to see you as a leader taking your colleagues into the world of technology. keep up the work and hopefully the influence spreads far and wide!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! I hope your colleagues..and students...enjoy making a digital story! I always thought it was so much fun to try something new in my classroom and it makes it that much MORE fun when someone else is willing to try it with you. I cannot wait to hear how it goes!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on all the progress you're making! That's really exciting to hear about all of the ideas you're sharing, and how well they're being received. I have some ideas for technology to use with the two year-olds I work with and am nervous about sharing with my colleagues. We'll see though! :)
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