Quilt came out a few weeks ago with a new feature. You can now have teams, which Quizlet sets up for you. The kids do not have to sit together, but watch on their own devices to see if they have the answer. My class LOVED it. Here's a link to the post explaining the new feature
Quizlets new feature
Friday, April 8, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
VIDEOS!!!!
My students worked last week and first part of this week to create scripts about a body system in health. I had district download DO INK onto our team iPads. Today we video taped with the green screen. The kids had a blast and learned so much about health and producing videos that are meaningful. I learned a lot about video taping myself. I had purchased some plastic green table cloths to use, but they wrinkled and in some videos you can see the wrinkles distort the images imported. I think I'm going to invest in a green sheet that hopefully will have more weight to it and will not wrinkle as badly. The kids learned about having to stay in the confines of the green screen when videotaping. They figured out many options and things to do with the program that I hadn't figured out on my own. I hope to do another video project before the end of the school year. We are going to use Storyjumper with our Biographies, and I'm wondering about trying a video with the kids on their research as well. It was great to see the kids get excited about a project and be so creative, each video production was completely different. I need to figure out how to share it with parents, so they can see it as well.
My class is going to Kindergarten with their buddies on Friday afternoon to help them write poetry and create a Google Drawing. Both classes are excited, always fun to see different ages working together.
I took the online ORCA exercise. To be honest I found it not be very engaging, I think there is too much to do, but I'm looking at it through the lens of a 4th grader. They are only now beginning to learn to cite sources. We have been using Noodle Tools to cite our sources for our Biography research. I think there is too much text for kids to stay engaged. I think that having students take reading assessments online is okay, it gives us immediate feedback and data to know what our students need to work on and what they have mastered. LPS Wonders assessments are all taken online, and kids are used to taking it that way. My students graph goals and actual results each week for their assessments.
My class is going to Kindergarten with their buddies on Friday afternoon to help them write poetry and create a Google Drawing. Both classes are excited, always fun to see different ages working together.
I took the online ORCA exercise. To be honest I found it not be very engaging, I think there is too much to do, but I'm looking at it through the lens of a 4th grader. They are only now beginning to learn to cite sources. We have been using Noodle Tools to cite our sources for our Biography research. I think there is too much text for kids to stay engaged. I think that having students take reading assessments online is okay, it gives us immediate feedback and data to know what our students need to work on and what they have mastered. LPS Wonders assessments are all taken online, and kids are used to taking it that way. My students graph goals and actual results each week for their assessments.
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