Now What: Krystal and I decided to do our digital story as an introduction into colonization, 5th grade social studies. We found several pictures to help depict Jamestown, the Mayflower voyage, an Plymouth but I am just having a hard time capturing the emotion of it. So today we changed our story to dance. I love dance and feel passionately about it's importance in the school curriculum. Krystal liked the idea so we are off and running. The hardest part is finding the pictures I like. But I'm sure I will later run into problems finding music.
I'm having fun playing around with all the new tools I have learned from Google docs to Creative Commons. I know how important technology is to our everyday lives and enjoy learning about it. I have one teacher that can't even use black board and for me that is hard because she will mention something about an assignment and I won't write it down because I think I will just look at it on blackboard and it is not there.
So What:I think it will be fun to develop different digital story's for different topics but I would love to give my students some kind of research paper to do such as a former president of the United States or a famous women in history such as Florence Night and Gale and instead of a written report have them do a digital story about their topic.
My nephew has moved in with us. I love his teacher. She sends out e-mail all the time to remind us of the upcoming science fair, any testing going on, and grades. I am more connected to his class and teacher than I am to my own son in the same grade. I am definitely using technology to keep in touch with my students parents or guardians.
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