Animoto is a great site for student projects. To me, it beats out all software – Photostory, Movie Maker, and even iMovie. Why?
1. Can be accessed from any computer with Internet access.
2. Although it won’t take video, it creatively displays photos, so you don’t even notice.
3. Only allows small amount of text per slide. (Typically, students [...]
Typically, we provide monthly reports to our administrators – we keep stats, count classes, and make copies. These go in their mailboxes until the next month. However, this year we changed to semester reports and added a new feature, assessed indicators. We looked at our KS State Reading Assessment tested indicators and noted each time [...]
This is a double-post from the JAG Stacks newsletter blog for teachers at staff at West.
With new 2.0 tools, there are new ways to visualize text that can possibly enhance understanding and engage students.
Tagcrowd and Wordle provide visual representations of words.
How can it be used? Go to SIRS Researcher, Election 2008, and copy-paste [...]
I am teaching voicethread class this afternoon to teachers in our district. For the class, I created a resource wiki (http://bvvoicethread.wikispaces.com/), so we can post new ideas and access resources that I found to help beginners.
We recently purchased the education license of Voicethread. It makes it easier to manage for the most part. Recently, they [...]
I am always looking for real world examples when discussing plagiarism with students. Often, it seems that taking something from another site is not a big deal. I found this recent company blog article discussing how another company used their words. Although to me, the offense is very slight, it does a good job of [...]
With the new school year, we are again revisiting our norms, vision, and goals from last year to update for this school year.
Smart Goals for 2008-2009
1. By the end of 2008-2009 school year, the library media specialists will integrate 21st Century Skills into 50% of the lessons collaborated.
Initiatives: Training for teachers
New knowledge of 2.0 tools
Integration [...]
I wasn’t able to go to NECC – but I saw this link on a blog about the presentation of the many librarians. I plan to take a look at this when time permits.
http://necclibrarians08.wikispaces.com/
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Last week, my plan was to post our annual report and provide a link to our updated BV West Reads page. However, my parents’ house was hit by a tornado in Manhattan, KS and we just got back from the clean-up. I posted some photos on Google Picasa and thought I would embed here.
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Im Voting
http://www.imvoting.org
At the end of this school year, a group of students began promoting the upcoming election by creating a website and video. The Election 08 class next semester will continue the project.
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My colleague, Amanda Davis, and I presented at the Kansas Library Conference this year. Our presentation, Power of Publishing, addressed how publishing students work through Web 2.0 tools can motivate students and truly impact their learning. Information from the presentation was posted to a wiki http://power2publish.wikispaces.com/ . If anyone uses these tools, please let us know – we [...]
