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The long awaited VoiceThread projects are finally graded and posted for your viewing pleasure here. There were some very great ones and some that needed a little work. If I had to do it all over again, I would change some things.
Things I would change:
I would change the rubric for the project. I graded the kids on their pictures, the sentences they created for the pictures, their voice quality, creativity, and their use of class time. Next time I would add a category – Picture Relatedness. Some of the students turned their Revolution VoiceThread into a research project about their favorite topics and forgot completely that they had to show a change over time.
I would make sure students work with a partner – 4th block especially. When students worked together, they brainstormed about their revolution giving them two perspectives instead of one.
OK….so here are the links for the VoiceThreads. The kids had them set to private, so I hope these links still work. If they don’t, then I’ll have to set the VoiceThreads to public.
1st Block:
Sawyer and Derek – http://voicethread.com/share/26077/
Glenn and Xavier C. – http://voicethread.com/share/26082/
Jeffrey and Tyler – http://voicethread.com/share/26086/
Leah and Summer – http://voicethread.com/share/26096/
Cody and Seth – http://voicethread.com/share/26087/
April and Leslie – http://voicethread.com/share/26106/
Cameron, Brandon, and Darrell – http://voicethread.com/share/26097/
Sean, Michael, and Chrissy – http://voicethread.com/share/26127/
Xavier W, Xavier LT, and Pagrien – http://voicethread.com/share/26107/
Jarrell and Destiny – http://voicethread.com/share/26129/
Angel, Cierra, and Kadeja – http://voicethread.com/share/26130/
2nd Block
Jacob and Kyle – http://voicethread.com/share/26149/
Dylan and Brandye – http://voicethread.com/share/26147/
Kendrick, Javarius, and Orlando – http://voicethread.com/share/26161/
Grayden and GK – http://voicethread.com/share/26159/
Jamekee and Dana – http://voicethread.com/share/26166/
Maddie, Erica, and Alleah – http://voicethread.com/share/26163/
DJ, Charles, and Tre – http://voicethread.com/share/26175/
Haley and Gennifer – http://voicethread.com/share/26170/
Ashley, Elexis, and Jessica – http://voicethread.com/share/26167/
3rd Block
Annie, Jordan, and Mary-Hannah – http://voicethread.com/share/26185/
Kayla and Savannah – http://voicethread.com/share/26186/
Kirby and Christine – http://voicethread.com/share/26187/
Chelise and Chelsea – http://voicethread.com/share/26190/
Taylor and Chanan – http://voicethread.com/share/26188/
Dalton and Alyssa – http://voicethread.com/share/26195/
Bridgette and Maleek – http://voicethread.com/share/26191/
Sadie and Kylie – http://voicethread.com/share/26196/
Jenna and Gissel – http://voicethread.com/share/26199/
Josh and Jamie – http://voicethread.com/share/26204/
Linda and Jontecia – http://voicethread.com/share/26201/
Cain and Brianna – http://voicethread.com/share/26205/
4th Block
Tylen - http://voicethread.com/share/26232/
Thair – http://voicethread.com/share/26235/
Matt – http://voicethread.com/share/26233/
Hunter – http://voicethread.com/share/26236/
Skylar – http://voicethread.com/share/26238/
McCall – http://voicethread.com/share/26245/
Josh – http://voicethread.com/share/26244/
Shannon – http://voicethread.com/share/26253/
Katie – http://voicethread.com/share/26249/
Skottowe – http://voicethread.com/share/26260/
Brett – http://voicethread.com/share/26278/
Kaitlyn – http://voicethread.com/share/26295/
Marshall - http://voicethread.com/share/26296/
Olivia – http://voicethread.com/share/26298/
Kristen – http://voicethread.com/share/26299/
Henry – http://voicethread.com/share/26305/
Mykal – http://voicethread.com/share/26885/
Ryan – http://voicethread.com/share/26892/
Haley – http://voicethread.com/share/26891/
Sean – http://voicethread.com/share/26897/
Jess – http://voicethread.com/share/26896/
Trevon – http://voicethread.com/share/27938/
Tichina – http://voicethread.com/share/27938/
Mariah – http://voicethread.com/share/27943/
Avery – http://voicethread.com/share/27939/
Here we go…holiday break is any second now.
Monday – 12/17/2007
Finish our vocabulary flash cards.
Study for Test.
Tuesday – 12/18/2007
7-3 Test
Wednesday – 12/19/2007
2 1/2 hour early dismissal today!!
VoiceThread Theater
For all of you educators out there. Check out your blog’s reading level. It looks like I’m writing on a Junior High School level. I guess I did that on purpose because that is my main audience, but I can’t say I’m satisfied with this. I’ve been in school systems for 23 years now. I’m really disappointed to be writing as a teenager, and an early teenager at that. The website analyzes the most recent post, so somewhere down the line I’ll strive for that High School level. I’ll have to thank big bro Greg for that link. He’s a year older and his blog reads at an elementary school level. Trumped!!
You can also check the gender of your blog post at a different site. I won’t tell you how I write. It’s official…the internet has everything.
I just created an animoto video. Pretty cool how it the program edits the pictures for you. And adds music!! I just don’t know how to make this a project. I’d like to add writing to it. Maybe I can turn a PowerPoint slide into a jpg.
Sorry there was no podcast this week. We’ve been busy, busy, busy!!! I’ll get one up as soon as possible.
Here is our schedule for the week:
Monday – December 10, 2007
MIRP w/ conferences
Current Events – CNN Student News
Tuesday – December 11, 2007
Vocabulary Discussion:
nationalism, kaiser, chancellor, militarism, guerrilla warfare
People to Meet:
Napoleon Bonaparte, Guiseppe Garibaldi, Wilhelm I, Otto Von Bismarck
Wednesday – December 12, 2007
Growth of European Nationalism:
Thursday – December 13, 2007
Unification of Italy & Germany
Friday – December 14, 2007
Let the Review Begin
People to Meet Graphic Organizer
Ok…It’s nothing special, but I’ve created a wikispace for the class. It is completely editable by you and me. Give it a shot, you just may like it.
Just click the badge below.
Here is the schedule of events for this week:
Monday: December 3rd, 2007
Finish VoiceThreads in the Media Center
Read “Great Britain Leads the Way” –> Answer Review and Write Question
Read “A Revolution in Textiles”
Complete Review and Write paragraph for homework
Tuesday: December 4th, 2007
Read “Thomas Newcomen Invents an Engine”
Read “James Watt’s Fire Engine”
Compare and Contrast both engines in a Venn Diagram.
Wednesday: December 5th, 2007
Vocabulary Discussion:
Patent, mass production, interchangeable parts, division of labor, assembly line, puddling
page 127 Question #6
Thursday: December 6th, 2007
Read “The Development of Factories” –> Answer Review and Write
Read “The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution” –> Answer Review and Write
Video – The Industrial Revolution
Friday: December 7th, 2007
Review Game: Baseball Challenge
Quiz: 7-3.4 and 7-3.5
This past week was crazy!! I had my students create a VoiceThread. During the week I had to contend with several different obstacles. The first issue came with the jumbled up schedule due to MAP testing. Everyday had different times to meet with the classes. Then I had to deal with a blocked website. That was ok because I had a password to get past the firewall, but I had to put in the password every single time the students went to the website or even refreshed the page. It got old quick. Then my headsets with microphones came just at the nick of time, unfortunately getting them all to work with the computers was another issue. I had to log on to the computers as me and not as student, just to go into the control panel and fix the microphone settings. After all was said and done, only about half of my students finished their projects when I wanted them to finish. There were too many technical difficulties to contend with. Next time I know I’ll be better prepared for this. Even though, towards the end of the week I had a short fuse, I was extremely happy with the out come of the projects. I’ll post the links to the VoiceThreads later on in the week, once everyone has finished.
In addition to creating the VoiceThreads, I had a handful of my students create our podcast for the week. I ended up mixing all of their comments, but they created the entire podcast.
Here it is…
See What They’re Saying…