Well this is finally over and even though sometime I thought I was going to pull my hair out due to stress I realized that I over analyzed it. The lesson went WONDERFUL and super smooth. Please feel free to view my Voice Thread at any time!
Located below is my embedded version; but feel free to view both.
I will be the first to say that I am most definitely not the most Technological savvy person in the world. I feel that maybe this is why I struggled with this so much. On a brighter note I must face the fact that this world is moving at a very fast rate in upcoming technology and if I want to succeed I better jump on that train and start learning something.
What worked well?:
I feel that what worked especially well was the ease that Voice Thread provided in using and applying its very different form of technology. Its interactive as well as entertaining! I learned so many things while doing this. My partner Felicia and I did not know that you can doodle and talk at the same time. I'm all about learning something new every day and that's exactly what happened. So now if there comes a time when I use Voice Thread again I will know a new and better feature.
What would I do differently:
The only thing I would do differently would be the use of the other features that Voice Thread provides. Instead of doing all voice recordings I would try to type only or doodle only and maybe even combine all two or three of them.
Some questions I have are:
Is there any way that this can be more interactive and have a running log of each student and at the end of the year be made into one big project?
How can this be applied more often?
Should this be used as an assessment for subjects that only have interactive lessons with them?
Here are some peers blogs and voice threads. They all did and excellent job and provided great examples.
Carrie Shiver Bonnie Hall Kourtney Racicot
I am not sure how I would apply this more often. I might pick one subject and allow that to be where I integrate the technology. It is very overwhelming and I think that maybe more than one subject might just make you scream.
ReplyDeleteGreat Voicethread! I imagine integrating Voicethread during Computer Lab time otherwise, I'm with Carrie, how could you get more computers up and running? Most schools don't have the budget to have but a few in each classroom.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Carrie and Mrs. D. It would be great to be able to use this technology in the classroom. If all students had their own computers, this technology could be easily implemented. Unfortunately, many schools do not have the resources to furnish a computer for each student. One way around this problem that I think would work is to put the students into the same number of groups as there is computers. Great job on your voicethread!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above comments. I'm not sure how I'd apply this more often, either. I've wanted to pull my hair out every time we've worked with this voice thread. Although the lesson was a success, for some reason I'm still stressed out. I think it'd be a great lesson to do if you had some sort of computer lab, so I agree with Mrs. D on that one. This type of lesson is hard for a school that doesn't have access to computers. Anyway, great job, Jena! Glad it was a success for you as well!
ReplyDeleteIf technology was available then yes we could apply this more often. Unfortunately, we live in South Texas and it is just not available to us like we want it to be. I know where I plan on teaching they have one computer in the classroom that they use specifically for AR testing.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great math application! You're right- overanalysis runs rampant when trying to generate a purposed, creative application of current technologies. I'm glad this worked well for you!
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ReplyDeleteI liked how you mentioned in you comment if voicethread can be used as an assessment because I've been wondering the same thing as well. I think as long as you have only one voicethread and one color assigned to each student and they know the expectations prior to completing the assessment it could work out well. And if your doing math, the doodling tool is great because you can see exactly how your students are solving the problem.
Jena, I really love the interactive and hands-on feature in your Voicethread. As it turns out it looks like it could also be a very good way to assess students. I thought your Voicethread was a great use of the doodle feature, which I didn't get the hang of until after I had already done most of my project. Thank you for this project. It has giving me another positive way to use Voicethread.
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