Post TIE BLOG (2)

I believe this lesson asked a bit much of the children and I think in the future I might have found a way to make it a little less intricate since they are at such a young age still (2nd grade).  I think voice thread is a good tool to get children interested and learning about the internet and the resources that it provides for us.  It is a good way to introduce the internet and its procedures to a young group of children by giving them simple assignments and presenting them the activities that they can do on this tool.  The students seemed to enjoy the voice thread, but were a little shy when talking on the microphone.  I think with more practice they will become accustomed to it and open up a little more.
Linked below are the final products from the TIE Lesson.

Bloom's Chart

Pedagogical Implications

Story Board

Lesson Plan

Voice Thread

Now other PST's I'd like if you commented on my work after reviewing all my components!  This is my first time working on voice thread so any comments and suggestions are welcome!  Thank you!

TIE BLOG UPDATED

I have come to a final conclusion on the TIE lesson & voice thread activity.  It is a story-mapping & sequencing lesson on the book There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly.  The students will be put in groups to each work on finding a part assigned to them, such as; setting, characters, problem, three major events, and a solution.  After the groups each take turns providing the answer for their parts and explaining they will each be given a copy of a story map to fill out, they can choose together or work alone.  The students can choose to work together on this or alone.  The filled out story-maps will be depicted on the voice thread.  Students can use the voice thread to comment on each other's work or use the "doodle" tool to circle things that interest them. Below are links of everything that goes with my lesson.  The voice thread is still in progress.

Bloom's Chart
Story Board
Pedagogical Implications
Lesson Plan
Voice Thread

A Slight Change in the TIE Lesson

After planning and talking with my CT even more in depth about my voice thread activity,
we have decided to modify the activity just a bit.  Instead of the students using their own stories to find determine, the beginning, middle, end, sequence the main events, find the main character, determine the problem, and solution...we will provide a short story for them to do this with.  The students will be put in groups, and each group with be provided with a different short story.  Each group will have a leader to talk and explain their answers to the rest of the class.  We will go around the room, stopping at each group so that they can point out what is asked of them and explain why they believe this is the correct answer.  I will post one more blog containing all the information needed, therefore everything will be in one place!

TIE BLOG 1-Lesson Plan Update

The lesson plan is coming along and more detailed on what the students will be doing exactly and how this will take place.  The voice thread will be completed by taking group of students at a time and bringing them back to talk and tell each part of their personally written stories and their beginning, middle, and ends, and what they introduced in each part, their problem, and their solution.  Below the Bloom's, and pedagogical implications are filled out.  The storyboard/lesson plan is still in progress with me and my teacher.

Pedagogical Implications-Sequencing Lesson



Blooms-Sequencing Lesson

CT Communication and VoiceThread Activity

I communicated with my CT about the voice thread project.  We are planning to do this lesson on the subject of reading within the next couple of weeks.  The students will be applying their prior knowledge on sequencing and story mapping.  Each will be explaining how they find the beginning, middle, and end of a story and what they will find in each of these sections.

Blooms

Pedagogical Implications

Voice Thread Techonolgy Analyzation-Post 2

http://voicethread.com/share/44783/
In our group we picked the above voice thread about Kindergarten children creating stories on Mary Had a Little Lamb.  The children used multiple of the Bloom's High Order Thinking Skills in this activity by remembering the original story so that they could use this in the next part of the activity.  The next thing they did was Analyze the original story to better understand how to Create their own story.  The students also drew pictures along with their stories and their classmates were also allowed to comment on these to provide feedback and ask questions about these.  I think another thing the students could do is analyze the students pictures and try to interpret what is happening in their story without actually reading the actual story or hearing their peers explain it.  Below are links to the documents that we analyzed the voice thread in and what intelligences and higher order thinking skills were used in the voice thread.

Bloom's Chart

Microburst Framework

Collaborative Student Tools-Blog Entry 1

I really like the Google Presentation tools, there are so many different things that I didn't know about them.  I think that they can be used for a lot of presentations and for many in-class projects for students to use and become familiar with technology.  The voice-thread activity that we are learning is a very good tool to use in the classroom because it is a good way to get students working together and figuring out ways that they can collaborate certain projects.  I think once I become more familiar with these tools and different ways to use them I will be able to come up with specific lessons that these tools would be the most beneficial for.