Let Your Students’ Voices be Heard: Free Resources to Reach 21st Century Students

Corina Long, M.Ed., M.T.T.

A "normal” brain takes eighteen seconds to decide whether to keep or drop input … approximately enough time to hear one sentence from beginning to end.

(Wolfe 1999 quoted in Barron 2004).

Top Five Gifts for Teenagers

Portable Game DeviceCell PhoneComputerVideo Game ConsoleMP3 Players/iPods

Source: Starkman, Neal (2007).Leave Me Alone.... T.H.E. Journal. 33-38

http://www.cultofmac.com/ipods-in-grade-school-learning-tool-or-goof-off-d/18387.

Defining Web 2.0+

Four P’s: Basic Steps in Multimedia Projects

Plan –Storyboards and scripts help students stay focused.

Produce - Create your project.

Publish - Provide an audience by posting their work on your webpage (get a free website at http://www.weebly.com/), class blog, wiki, School Tube, etc.

Promote - Get the word out by joining a PLN (Twitter, Facebook, or Ning) to promote your class projects.

http://www.podworx.com/educational-content/four-ps-of-podcasting/

Turn your images into a music video!

Flat Stanley Animoto

More Examples For movies that are over 30 seconds, you

need to apply for a free educator account at http://animoto.com/education

Be a Buddy and Not a Bully

Functions

Ideas

• Create vocabulary shows by saving PowerPoint slides as jpgs.

• Use Picnik to add text to your images first.

• Create shows to introduce complex skills.

• Let students create book trailers.

• Add Wordles to your shows.

• Add Discovery (medium) images

PhotoPeachQuickly and easily create an audio slideshow with captions.

PhotoPeach ExamplesSharksGingerbread Houses

Holds any type of media (images, documents, and videos)

Comment 5 different ways - voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam)

Share

Voicethread Examples

https://voicethread.com/#q.b4622.i36067

http://voicethread.com/#q.b50562.i303124

http://voicethread.com/#q.b119840.i624895

Voicethread Step-by-Step Guide

Blabberize helps students to take pride in their work and be motivated to become better speakers and writers.Ocean BlabbersBaby Chick Blabber

Examples

Step-by-Step Guide

http://blabberize.com/Sign up for a free account at

ExamplesSpanish AssignmentFlorida

Voki IdeasCreate avatars similar in appearance and record a

message that tells about themselves.Exchange avatars with e-palsELL students can use the speaking avatars to

practice and listen to their speech. They may use the computerized voice first then record their own voice when they feel more confident.

Create an avatar that resembles a character from a story, add a setting and give it speech. The speech could be from the story or a point of view from the character on an event.

Add your own images to the background.

Source: Helen Otway. January 2008.

Download at http://www.jingproject.com

Upload to http://www.screencast.com/

Mathcast Exampleshttp://math247.pbworks.com/Mathcasts+-+MPS+Students

http://www.mathtrain.tv/

Example

http://www.scrapblog.com/

Mixbook Examples

Shapes Around Our School

Favorite Animals

Mixbook Guide

Get started with your digital book at

http://www.mixbook.com/

ComicsSuper Lame

Make Beliefs Comix

Read Write Think’s Comic Generator

Newspaper Generator

Kerpoof

Kerpoof is a free tool that allows students to create original artwork, animated movies, and stories.Use from any browser, on any computer with Internet access.

No software to installNo licenses to buy (free to educators)

Projects can be saved and/or printed out.Projects can be private or public for all to seehttp://www.kerpoof.com/

Ideas As a writing prompt- provide a scene and let students choose the charactersAsk students to recreate a scene from their reading and to summarize what they readFor creative writing- retell a story from a different point of view

Not on the Test

http://corinastechspot.wikispaces.com/

http://twitter.com/cclong