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Serendipity. Just seeing my thwirl swirling on my screen when I saw Jefflebow there. Well, out of curiosity, because these guys at edtechtalk are always around new stuff, I decided to click on the link Jeff suggested to test mebeam. Bang! I was there with him, John Schinker, Dave Cormier and Jen Madrell. What a great pleasure to see all those little video thumbnails. I laughed to myself because I had no idea they would all be there. It’s just like getting in the wrong room when people are into interesting conversations and you interrupt them…Well, Jeff has this very fast-thinking (forward-thinking, too!) reactions and asked if I wanted to join them. I asked when and he said it was in 10 minutes. There I was busted and glued in the room of those edtechtalkies who know how to run a show! It was great. Except that I don’t know if Dave liked the fact that I pushed him into some discussion related to his teaching approaches and mine, as well, based on his rhizomatic view of learning. Interesting discussion with a taste that I want to go futher on the discussion…or, at least, go deeper into the topic.
Inês brought up an interesting issue on my last post, the fact that my ideas for icebreakers might not apply for a kids’ classroom because of online accounts restraints. True that I had adult students in mind, but she got me thinking. Inês is a Portuguese educator and was mainly concerned about signing up for accounts for kids under 13.
Some solutions that might apply: instead of having kids create signing up in sites, the teacher could have one class account and invite students to be editors (generally kids have their parents’ or personal emails that could be used for the invitation), whenever this is possible. Also, in the case of Flickr, for example, the photo activity could still work if the teacher had an account, for the students could send their photos to the Flickr email connected to that specific account. Besides, I would adapt it and ask students to do the following:
One thing that is interesting for the little ones is the fact that once they have their online production, it could be a bridge between home and school. In my school, whenever I have a project, I send an email to parents to tell them about their kids’ projects.
Just make sure you have parents’ authorization and that they understand your approach to online use.
Transparency leads to understanding and appreciation of our collective work.
Some solutions that might apply: instead of having kids create signing up in sites, the teacher could have one class account and invite students to be editors (generally kids have their parents’ or personal emails that could be used for the invitation), whenever this is possible. Also, in the case of Flickr, for example, the photo activity could still work if the teacher had an account, for the students could send their photos to the Flickr email connected to that specific account. Besides, I would adapt it and ask students to do the following:
- Draw their avatar and upload them to Flickr by taking a photo of each avatar, or just scanning the drawings.
- Take a photo of something in their class that called their attention on the first day of class.
- Students could create a comic strip with Go Animate (I checked the terms of use and didn’t find age restriction), or a film with fictional characters at Dvolver
- They could create an online scrapbook page with scrapblog or glogster. Yes, I know. You need to register, but maybe you could work on teams and the teacher could set up 3 or 4 accounts in advance for the class. I have some email options to create different accounts for my groups. The teacher could have different topics for the students and they could change one of them to create a scrapbook page.
- Students could send e-cards to their parents and friends. Only rule I have: I should check the card before they hit the submit button to make sure the language used is appropriate. Or you could ask them to send an e-card to you telling you about what they wish the schools were like. I’m sure you’d get many insights from the little ones.
- You could have groups make up stories and create images for an online book at Mixbook.
- With Picwing, photo tool that I mentioned before, the teacher only needs to create an album for the class, and the students could send drawings and photos to the email provided by picwing for each album you create. Here’s one example of mine I created for my hometown, Brasilia. Anybody can send a picture of Brasilia to my album using the email address brasilia@picwing.com . So, you could have something like classxxx@picwing.com as well.
- Students could record their introductions in Audacity and the teacher could upload students’ introductions to a podcast site like Podomatic or Odeo.
One thing that is interesting for the little ones is the fact that once they have their online production, it could be a bridge between home and school. In my school, whenever I have a project, I send an email to parents to tell them about their kids’ projects.
Just make sure you have parents’ authorization and that they understand your approach to online use.
Transparency leads to understanding and appreciation of our collective work.
I had signed up for Utterz, but haven’t tested it. Today I decided to give it a try from my mobile phone just dialing the number they gave me when I created my account. Clear instructions, recorded message, magic! Already online. It’s an effective way for moblogging. You can make short interviews on the go, record your own thoughts, whatever you can think of.
In addition, you can crosspost it to services including blogs, twitter, Tumblr, youtube (if you happen to have a cell phone with video capabilities), Flickr. Worth giving it a try.
Oh, not to mention the feature of audio discussions, in which you can join a conversation replying to your friend via cellphone.
Here’s my test:
In addition, you can crosspost it to services including blogs, twitter, Tumblr, youtube (if you happen to have a cell phone with video capabilities), Flickr. Worth giving it a try.
Oh, not to mention the feature of audio discussions, in which you can join a conversation replying to your friend via cellphone.
Here’s my test:
Dear Colin, Inês, Sue and Kevin,
Here’s my reply to you all about the Comment Challenge. Thanks for inspiring me to go even further now!
Here’s my reply to you all about the Comment Challenge. Thanks for inspiring me to go even further now!
Here’s an interview with Vance Stevens about Abu Dhabi.
He talks about:
the city
the multicultural population
religion
He talks about:
entertainment
other Emirates in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
the postal service
Thanks, Vance, for giving a broader perspective on Abu Dhabi!
Take a tour with Vance:
I've created this online quiz to go along with the interview. Feel free to use it.
I could be here preaching or saying nice things on how we could make this world a healthier, happier one. I decided for a minimalist approach with fewer written words and more of a message of hope from a little one who inspires me every day to be a better person in this world.
By listening to the little ones we can learn how to be good citizens in this world of hope and dreams. I keep dreaming on and teaching in the hope that I will make a small difference to the ones around me and that they can lead change. Changes of attitudes, thoughts, paradigms. Change of small individual worlds for an organic sustainable Earth.
Friends all over the world are giving their contribution. What’s your share?
Read Sasha’s inspiring post. Participate in Worldbridges Webcastathon. Read Cris Costa’s excited call to join earthcast08. Check our Earth Day discussions at the blogging4educators ning inspired by Ana Maria.
Check. Get inspired. Act.
I’m always eager to share and learn with the groups I’m part of.
So, here’s the challenge: how about adding our voices (audio or text) to this voicethread on edublogpractices that can engage students in blogging. It can be just ideas that haven’t be tested in your classroom yet, or practices that you found worked in your blogging classes.
I started with a very simple one. Listen to it and add yours!
So, here’s the challenge: how about adding our voices (audio or text) to this voicethread on edublogpractices that can engage students in blogging. It can be just ideas that haven’t be tested in your classroom yet, or practices that you found worked in your blogging classes.
I started with a very simple one. Listen to it and add yours!
I just finished working on an idea I’ve been mulling over for a while. Today was the day to choose and resize the photos I wanted to include in the voicethread for the Listening Plus online course, think of what I was going to say in each photo and record it. Voicethread is straightforward and with fantastic possibilities for collaboration. I’ve invited the Webheads and the LWcers, members of online Communities of practice I’m part of to add their voices to my Special Place Voicethread. Let’s see what happens. My idea is to have an open learning object that can be useful for different teaching/learning settings, as well as for the online listening course that I’ll be moderating pretty soon.
I’m pretty excited to see what happens!
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