Photo Slide Show

My students are reading the story Dear Mrs. Parks.  The story is about letters that students wrote Rosa Parks, and her correspondences. The students were then to pick out their role models and write a paragraph about their role models.  Students then could borrow my camera and go home and take pictures of their role models.  They then came to school and worked in animoto to create a video.  While students were reading their paragraphs, the video was playing behind them.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

podcast

My podcast is my students working in a literature circle. They were discussing the first three chapters on Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Actually this was a really great activity to do with Podcasts because you can have several literature circles going on at once and then listen later to see how the students are doing. I have done literature circles for the past few years, but I think that this is a great way to use literature circles in the class.

lit circle

on-line photo album volney's cooperative learning groups

Here is my slideshow of my class, in cooperative learning groups. Each student has a job, like leader, material manger, voice monitor, cleaner. The students really enjoy working together.

screen cast

My screen cast was on Lattice Multiplication. My student Sharod explained the steps to lattice multiplication. He was eager to help and said after that he enjoyed creating a screen cast and he would love to do it again. I think that this is a great way to assess.

PLN

As I worked on my PLN tonight, I realized I could work on it forever. I'm always evolving, and so is my learning.

participation

tonight in class, I was helping Mike Carlin create his google earth trip.

Webquest

Here is my webquest on Ben Franklin for my 5th grade students.  It is pretty basic, but for being my first,  it should work.

Benjamin Franklin WebQuest