7:40-9:30, 1:15-3:30
Schedule:
- Journal prompt
- Review Voice Threads
- Political Cartoons
- Famous speeches
- Argumentative essays
I missed this morning's journal prompt because I was pulling students out to record their commercials in the computer lab. The students wrote the scripts for these commercials yesterday, so they were ready to record directly into iMovie today. I felt that using the webcam to record in the lab really limited their creativity. I think that if I was doing this in my own classroom, I would prefer to record with a flip camera and then use the computers for editing and special effects.
I had to leave for part of the day because I presented on "The Developing Role of E-readers and Other Technologies in the Classroom" at the MidSouth Reading and Writing Conference. As I thought about technology so much today, I realized that literacy instruction is changing rapidly. Writing instruction is no longer limited to traditional five-paragraph essays in composition notebooks. In this digital age, we must teach our students about a variety of methods of expression and communication of ideas - including speeches, digital videos, and other visual presentations like Voice Threads and animated cartoons created in Paint or on the Internet.
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