Archive for the ‘Best Practices’ Category

Using videos to enhance learning

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

The second grader's eyes were wide open gazing at the leaf. He had never seen so many colors before his eyes. You see, he had lived his whole life in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He had never before known leaves to change color. Once I moved back to Washington, in 2004, I ...

Audacity and Book Reports

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

I have been using Audacity to create book reviews in my class. The 5th grade students follow the  criteria for reviewing books and then create a podcast to be loaded on to the library website. Here are the direction: For the podcast  include the following features. You may place them in ...

Vodcasting your newsletters

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Sometimes I scare myself with the outrageous ideas I have. I’m going into a writing unit and using vodcasting as the mass media to reach an authentic audience. In order to scaffold the work, I need a hook. Today was the creation of one of those hooks. Here’s the first ...