After reviewing the Voicethread4education site and many of the Voicethreads there, I went to the Pageflakes site and viewed even more. Lots of great ideas implemented by kids and adults. It was nice to see the families commenting on even the simplest threads. It was nice to see people of all ages commenting on strangers threads. It seemed that I may be missing a beginning piece. There doesn't seem to be any opening introduction to the threads where there are many commentators. It is like you have to figure it out from the dialog, what the intent or topic is. Am I missing something?
Many of the educational sites I as looking at were for older elementary kids where this type of technology would be even more useful. I am sure kids themselves have come up with innovative uses. I focused on the younger ages as I hope to create a thread or two in my Pre K class soon.
Here are a few ideas:
Pre K
Documentary: Life of a Worm
Photos and a student comment on each of the events. This project will help students to articulate what they are doing and why. Students work can be shared with family and friends.
Composting for food
Recycling for a habitat
Planting for a habitat
Composting for a habitat
Future worm habitats
Pre K
Student Story Telling. Beginning VT use. Keeping it simple yet personal.
Student draws picture for thread.
Student tells about picture.
Encourage more pictures to continue story.
Pre K
Story Acting of the Three Little Kittens. The students really enjoy acting out their favorite stories. The VT will be am easy way for them to share their joy.
VT of scenes for Three Little Kittens
Scene 1: Kittens playing outside while Mother inside cooking
Scene 2: Kittens lost mittens and Mother scolds
Scene 3: Kittens find mittens and Mother praises
Scene 4: Kittens eat pie with mittens on and Mother scolds them for soiled mittens
Scene 5: Kittens wash mittens and Mother praises
Scene 6: Applause, Bow and off stage
I like how we both want to do stories with the pre k kiddos! I also am interested in your worm lesson idea...I would like to hear more about that. I am in charge of science/art at tanaina and would love any ideas!
ReplyDeleteWe will start next week with recycling and composting for the worms future food and habitat. We save the bottoms of paper milk containers for the habitat. Worms like it dark so we cover the inside with black paper. Then the next week we put some dirt in there and some seeds, planting week when we do lots more planting in other containers. Then the following week we talk about Alaskan animals and their habitats. We start putting compost into the habitat and then a worm. We keep the habitat wet with a water bottle with water or worm tea. Cover with scraps of newspaper to keep them from drying out. Send them home when it is warm enough for them to put them outside in the great outdoors. You will have fruit flies with the worms if they are inside. If they are out in a colder area, less flies but more a chance of death by cold. Let me know if you want more details. Kids love worms.
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