Friday, March 30, 2012

PSA videos

This was a much different experience than the podcasts. As a matter of fact, it is amazing how quick 30 seconds can be! We found ourselves having to skim back on many of the details that we thought to originally include. Things like pictures also had to be much briefer than we had originally intended.

I think this would be a great project for high school or middle school students. Having to convert the files caused some technical difficulties that might not work for the short amount of time that elementary students have to complete these types of projects. This could be a great addition to a speech class!

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Web 2.0

My project over the summer was for my class to build a book review website. All of the students reviews would be checked by the teacher before being posted.

Students could use a Wiki to do book reviews. The pages could be arranged by genre and/or reading level. The only problem I see with this would be students posting inappropriate reviews before the teacher has a chance to review them. If there were some type of teacher lock on the wiki, that would be great.

I actually think this could work better, because the students would already have their reviews typed.