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.