Sunday, November 2, 2014

Blog post 7


Preparing Myself for Project Based Learning

Strengths:
Ø  Familiar with Apple, iPads, etc.
Ø  Familiar with PC computers, Google slides.
Ø  I have worked with children in summer camps.

Weaknesses:
Ø  Never practiced this kind of learning as an elementary school student
Ø  Unfamiliar with Discovery Education Board Builder
Ø  Slightly unfamiliar with Alabama Virtual Library
Ø  Unfamiliar with Poplet

Ø  Slightly unfamiliar with QR codes



In "How to Make an Audio QR Code," Michele Bennett demonstrates how teachers can record files and transfer them into a QR code. Students can use it when reading a pre-recorded book, or when listening to a recorded story out of their reading book of the teacher’s voice. Michelle Bennett says that "Children listen to the story three or four times", and think of their teachers voice as a tutor that is helping them learn how to read. It is a great way to get children reading.
 This could be useful for many events such as Meet the Teacher Night, when parents can scan the code to find an introduction video by the teacher. These could also be used by students in their projects and they could also make their own recording for a code. "iPad Reading Center" and "Poplet with Ginger Tuck" both showcase ideas for kindergarten reading centers using iPads. In the first video, teacher Ginger Tuck shows how her students can record themselves reading and playback the recording to better student’s fluency and other reading skills. Tuck uses the application Popplet in the second video for her students to make visual web maps of books. Alabama Virtual Library is a resource that students can use to research and organize information, as shown in "AVL and Kindergarten Students." Another great online resource for project based learning is Discovery Education Board Builder, which allows students to create virtual bulletin boards of information. In "Tammy Shirley Discovery Education Moon Builder Project," Tammy Shirley's first grade student showcased her Moon Project Board she created. In "Mrs. Tassin 2nd Grade Students Share Board Builder Project" and "Mrs. Tassin students share Board Builder Project," Mrs. Tassin's second graders presented their project based learning group assignments using Board Builder. Imovie and Alabama Virtual Library, Dr. Strange asks Michelle Bennett and Elizabeth Davis to share about Imovie and AVL and how children in kindergarten are using these programs. The students use Imovie to make book trailers just like students in EDM310. Teachers in these schools use these programs as a means to help children learn. We All Become Learners, Dr. Strange again asks Michelle Bennett and Elizabeth to share with everyone that we all become learners. Michelle Bennett shares that a student in Kindergarten showed her how to do something on and his or her Ipad. Dr. Strange sums it all up when he says that we are all "teachers and learners," teachers as well as students learn something new every day. 

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