Thing # 19

What is Bellwork? My principal will be so glad to see this. The work shown on the Voicethread was meaningful and thought provoking. I can it used as a writing prompt or even an assessment tool. While I was listening to this link I did hear the question of copyright raised when using such pictures. In Going and Coming I was intrigued with the use if inference and generalizations. With What is Voce Thread Anyway? I started thinking of ways family history could be recorded with those that we want to keep their memories around even after they have gone before (or after) the rest of us. Some of these voicethreads were definitely for higher grades than elementary.

Having just completed some online classwork I was impressed with Measurement and Uncertainty. This teacher had a well planned lesson and it was easy to follow her directions. I was really happy with Measuring Volume of Weird Objects because our students have so little real world experience with this. While Web 2.0 Promises and Potentials was long it was an excellent review of what we're working with. The first graders did a fine job with their presentation in Library from A to Z.

The use of VoiceThread would be a efficient tool in checking for understanding, but even more beneficial in creating great PR by showing students in a 'Win Win' setting where they could voice their understanding of a particular concept. It would be great to use the picture prompt and then have students read what they write. This would be another method of editing papers, and would also allow students to listen to what they have written to see if it makes sense to them. The different ways of responding are accomodating to different levels of technology.