TIE Blog 2

Wow! I cannot believe this semester is coming to an end! This has been a stressful and busy few months! I know I have worked extremely hard throughout this semester! I was extremely excited to be enrolled in this technology course. I have some prior knowledge of technology from previous classes in my college career. Overall, I think my voice thread lesson went well! This was my last lesson of the semester! This was a bittersweet lesson for me, but my lesson went great! I enjoyed working with my students to create this and I hope you do too! Here is my voice thread What worked well I feel like once I got the hang of this voice thread it seemed to work smoothly. My students had no problem wanting to speak and tell me about what they have learned. I think this is a great idea to show parents what their students are learning in the classroom. My students loved seeing the whole thing put together! What I could have done differently would be to have access to the internet with our laptops. Maybe if we were provided with more headphones in the classroom to utilize both computers. Maybe I could have used the computer lab or library instead of the classroom. Also, it was hard to get the voice thread in since I had time constraints. Maybe next time I could have allowed myself extra time. What could I have done differently to make this a better lesson?

TIE #1

My lesson will be a science lesson on the life cycle of the butterfly. I am excited to teach this lesson and to have this lesson be my last lesson of the semester! I will include my TIE in this lesson. Included in this blog post, you will see my lesson plan. Also, I will include the taxonomy page. Now, you will find my affordances page. Now my story board information will be included. At last I have my voice thread account set up and ready to go.

Here is our voice thread. I know have learned and am more familiar with voice threads. I now see why educators use this tool in their classrooms.

Technology Integration Experience (TIE) Thoughts

I have reviewed several voice threads and have found two voice threads that could relate to my students and my lessons. The first voice thread is talking about predicting and fractions and what you do in each story. I think this would work well with my kindergarten students and I could imagine myself using the voice thread by having the students write short stories about topics such as fractions and have students come and record their stories. The second voice thread I have found is having the students work on their own book stories and having the students work on reading with the teacher. By having these students rehearse the stories through the voice thread allows the students to use this technology to go home and work on their reading skills and it shows the students progress to the families as well.