March 3rd- Digital Story 2.

What:

Today, we did a continuation of last week more on our final project.

We learned alot about copyrights, 

some of which was new information to me.

So What:

This was useful information, especially creating

our photostory project.

There is much to consider when getting material to teach with.  

I also learned today what my students

will be learning during field.

Now What:

I need to get with my partner and make a layout.

We need to start gathering material.
Take into consideration and study up about copyrights.

Time to begin our project!

February 24th- Digital Story 1.

What:

This was our first week of Digital Story. It was more or less a continuation
of what we did last week.Which was photo story,
but it is a bigger project more related to our field. 

So What:

I think that this will be a good project to work on, it will give me a better

understanding and working with photo story.
Where we are able to relate it to something 

our students are learning will be a good opportunity to really make

sure we are perfecting what we are teaching.

I have yet to get a hold of my teacher, left a message and hope to find out soon.

This past week i have been looking over the the standards and guidelines

of fifth grade and brain storming what would be a good to incorrperate.

I have also been working with my partner, which is good becasue

we have had some exposure to our 5th grade assignemt on past assignemnts. 

Now What: 

Now i need to get a better grasp on what exactly we are doing. 

Make a layout of what all to incorporate in our Digital Story.

Include the Standards and Objectives, and begin.

February 17th- Vidcast Reflection.

Rachel Reese.
February 17th, 2011

    For our Vidcast project we used Kindergarten: Standard 1 Students will understand simple number
concepts and relationships. Objective 1 Identify and use whole numbers up to 30: 1. Represent whole numbers using concrete, pictorial, and symbolic representations. 2. Order a set of up to ten objects and use ordinal numbers from first to tenth to identify the position of the object in the chosen order. 3. Use one-to-one correspondence when counting a set of objects and develop a strategy for keeping track of counted and uncounted objects. My Group included Amy Vacherie and I and we used PhotoStory.  Our project is titled “How to count to 20!”
    It was fun, to think of an idea that would be a useful and fun resource to create, was a good experience. The song we used I think would be catchy to children, and the fact that we were able to use our preschoolers made it personal. The experience with getting the parents to sign a permission slip was good for me to realize that this is an important assignment and made me feel like a real teacher. After collaborating pictures and number charts, downloading and putting them into PhotoStory we were able to work with the timing of the song and making sure everything ran smoothly.
    All in all this was a good experience and a fun project. It helped me to understand that working together and creating useful material can be a good source for our future classrooms. You can use Vidcast in many subject areas and incorporate many skills for children to learn with.

February 10th- Vidcast.

What:

This assignment was on creating a vidcast. 

We went over many ways in class to approach this. 

Next week ill talk more specifically on the way that my group chose to do it.

But the basic idea of this assignment was to create
something to be broadcast on you tube.

An educational video centered around a standard and objective under the
Utah Core Curriculum.

We could do this assignment in a couple different ways, photo story three,
a flip video, or jing.

So What:

So when working with students this could be helpful and a creative way to show 

what they have learned about a specific subject.

It's a good way to display a concept, but it allows the children to be working together.

I think that by the children explaining and thinking up ideas for their project 

it will help them to understand more.

Now What:

I think now how i will approach this, is by learning more about all the
different ways to create a vidcast.

We focused on photo story and the others are still a little new for me.

But i think it would be a fun thing and helpful for me to learn for future classes.