BP7 2009-122-#1Digital Story Telling

Voicethread is one of the digital tools I find very fascinating and interesting to use. ‘Voicethread is a powerful way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos.’ It promises to address the needs of all levels of education ‘pro,k-12. higher ed and business. Voicethread had been described as relevant, engaging and gives authenticity to learning; it is also engaging, enforces listening and participation and story building. All learning domains and bloom’s taxonomy are integrated in using digital story telling.
Voicethread has an interface that easy to navigate, featuring ‘Browse, Create and My Voice’
When the Browse button is clicked a host of over 63 pages templates with eight templates on a page. each template is made up of pictures that are animated on a click with a story teller or picture and people commenting on various aspects of the story or pictures.
Online listeners like me have a place to comment and be posted so that the thread of discussion on the picture or story goes.I even had mu picture inserted and loaded on the hots of comments and published instantly. The Create button leads one to upload some videos and pictures that could edit or replace with another picture and so create a whole new voicethread images .My Voice gives various features of voice input and output setting from an Imac computer. One is ready to go.
Voicethread and many other digital story telling tools are accessible from Ozge Karaoglu’s Blog at
http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2009/11/11/100-digital-storytelling-tools-for-your-digital-selves-natives-part-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+edublogs%2FNRsj+%28Ozge+Karaoglu%27s+Blog%29
Go Animate is another digital story building tool from goanimate.com
To teach Language Arts, Ebglish Language Developmen and Creative Writing and story Telling Voicethread and GoaAnimate will be a useful tool in the hands of educaators.













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Digital Story Telling is my choice of web 2.0 type to use for my class. Digital Story telling is a form of story telling that uses images, music, text, audio clips to tell a story. By this students and teachers are able to comprehend, visualize and communicate meaning through digital story telling.
Topic: Comparing Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’
And Marge Piercy’s ‘To be of Use’
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. State the themes common to and different in both poems
2. Point out 3 imageries used in both poems
3. And show how the imageries add to the theme of each poem
4. Post a poem of theirs on choices.

Teaching Aids:
images of yellow wood forest and bush paths as seen on the page showing Frost’s poem, a picture of an ocean or sea water and sea seals swimming in the sea, a video clip of pictures and images of such; a script of the story of Robert Frost and marge Piercy’s poems.
Using Voicethread from http://www.voicethread.com a software program for voiceovers Nelson, J., Christopher, A., & Mims, C. (2009). TPACK and Web 2.0: Transformation of Teaching and Learning. Tech Trends: T Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 53(5), 80-87. doi:10.1007/s11528-009-0329-z.two students will read a scripted summary of both poems, which the class had done under the guidance of their teacher. Images downloaded from the internet will be added to the voice overs of the poems.
this is a project that the class will work in two groups, one group for each poem After the editing of the digital story telling, students and teachers will watch and listen to each poem. With the questions at the instructional objectives students will watch to answer:
1. the theme of indecision and choice on the first poem and the theme of decisiveness and choice from the second poem;
2. the imagery of the traveler, grassy bush paths and forest undergrowth from poem 1 and seam swimmers and ‘without dallying in the shallows’ from the second poem and
3. relate how it portrays two groups of people in life: the undecided and the decided choosers.
4. Point out the stanzaic structures of each poem and the rhyming scheme used in both.

Assessment: Follow each of the poems they liked and write a four stanzaic poem on the important choices they have made in life so far.
1st stanza show the two choices you had.
2nd stanza show the conflict in choosing one from the other
3rd stanza describe the choice made and why
4th stanza with the wisdom of hindsight, was it a right choice or not



References
Prentice Hall Literature (2002),California Edition,Glenview, Illinois

Nelson, J., Christopher, A., & Mims, C. (2009). TPACK and Web 2.0: Transformation of Teaching and Learning. Tech Trends: T Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 53(5), 80-87. doi:10.1007/s11528-009-0329-z.

chuks on blogs

Blogs written for ETC class.

BP3...docx

PB3-20091213-uses of blog in education
This article looks briefly at blogs from four different perspectives: the nature of blogs, their characteristics, their uses in education and guidelines for their use. Alternatively blogs could be; looked at broadly from two different ways: as a group activity where members can converge for town hall meeting or a market place of ideas for a group or as an individual activity where individuals have a places to show case their products and ideas.
By nature blogs are a form of writing for the public where individuals are encouraged to more clearly express themselves. And they are available anytime, anywhere and to anyone who has an Internet connection. Blogs by nature invite comments from readers and that is a specialty in the nature of blogs.
Characteristically blogs are casual in nature, a ‘hybrid of oral and written discourse.’ They could be called extended monologues and what some refer to as thinking aloud.
As Nguyen, T (2006) has observed, bogs have four main uses in education as of today: classroom management, collaboration, discussions and for posting of student portfolios.
Blogs are now used to replace standard web page where instructors post class assignments and times of completion and postings, suggested readings and exercises as we have seen it here at FSO. Students collaborate with others by use of blogs. Instructors also link specific essays and information that relate to their courses to students through blogs. In class discussions can now hold through blogs and students could have access to such information at their own time. Information and knowledge from other students are shared widely such that both the timid and loudly out-spoken students have a place to feel comfortable in such things without being intimidated by others.. Students also write and share their own blogs, express their opinions about any topic being studied in class, like we do now at FSO and for many courses we have taken so far.
For teachers and students alike the guiding question is: ‘Why do I want to use this blog and for what?’ not ‘ How do I use it?” such a guiding question will allow for purposeful writing in all our blog discourses






Diana, D(2007) Educational Uses of Blogs and Tags, retrieved 11/23/09: http://www.slideshare.net/sqoolmaster/educational-uses-of-blogs-and-tags-234136
Downes, S (2004) Educational Blogging,http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/blogs.htm

Handsfield, L., Dean, T., & Cielocha, K. (2009). Becoming Critical Consumers and Producers of Text: Teaching Literacy with Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Reading Teacher, 63(1), 40-50. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.

Nelson, J., Christopher, A., & Mims, C. (2009). TPACK and Web 2.0: Transformation of Teaching and Learning. Tech Trends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 53(5), 80-87. doi:10.1007/s11528-009-0329-z.
Nguyen, T(2006) The Uses of Blogs in Education: http://thanhnguyen75.blogspot.com/2006/11/use-of-blogs-in-education_14.html
Wang, K. T., Huang, Y., Jeng, Y., & Wang, T ( 2008): A blog-based dynamic learning map, Computers & Education, 51(1), 262-278
FLIERL, R., & FOWLER, H. (2007). Educational Uses of Blogs and Wikis. Phi Delta Kappan, 89(3), C3. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.

BP2-2009121 RSS Feeds google reader

BP01-2009121-Rationale...sites.doc

This short article gives some reasons for the google reader sites I choseGoogle Reader set Up
Five sites that will assist me in my professional aspirations include : sites on Correctional Education; Edutopia; Latest news from Web 2.0; Teach It out; and a Wall Street Journal on education.
Correctional Education gives me articles and writings and developments in Corrections which is where I work among prison inmates. I will also access research topics and materials for my action research project.
Edutopia is a site that is concerned with issues in public education in America and in general. I will be informed of latest developments and trends in public education.
Latest News from Web 2.0 will keep me informed on topics that concern ETC class I am in currently at Full Sail and help me understand better what I am into.
Teach It Out is the site that has to do with Design and Technology in Education. And with addition of Media i would be informed of developments in this field of education, Media Design and technology which is the area I am currently studying.
Lastly I added a Wall Street Journal on Education. This site will provide me with professional articles and writings in the field of education in general and will keep me abreast of developments in the field of education I have been in now for over 34 years now.