I Made My Own Website!

I had a lot of fun creating my own website for my classroom. Now that I've got it up and running, I plan to utilize this for my students as well as their parents next year! I can post weekly schedules, spelling and sight words for tests, homework assignments........ooh the possibilities are endless. Please check out my site. If you have any other ideas on what to post, please share!

http://ntorlando.webs.com/

Media Manipulation-Fotoflexer

After attempting to post this photo onto my blog 5 times, I finally was successful. I think this would be fun to do with my students and have them pick and choose what they would like. This would be especially fun after we do certain assignments. I did have fun with it once it worked.

Education Podcasts

After listening to some of the Podcasts on The Education Podcast Network, I found them to be very entertaining. I found some adorable sights of First Graders reading their stories and sharing information about themselves. As I get more familiar with all of this “technology,” I really do hope to apply some of these things in my own classroom.

I particularly love how it’s the voices of the children sharing what they have learned or what they are interested in. From experience, I have seen the reaction of the children when they just “see” themselves on the television or computer screen. Now to put their voices online, this could lead to a whole new eruption of excitement in our classroom! Can’t wait to try it out!

First Grade Snowman Pictures

Voice Threads

After viewing the Voice Thread website, I was able to listen to many different examples of specific first grade projects. For example, one of the threads was titled "If this Rock Could Talk". Another one was called, "Thanksgiving Turkey Project". I have embedded the actual website as well as a specific one called "First Grade Snowman". I loved how they used KidPix on the computer and then named and described what the snowman was doing. A great link for new ideas!

http://voicethread.com/q+first+grade

Final Project Video Revised!

I played around with my video, picked a new song and tried out the different options. I liked this one better.....

http://www.rockyou.com/show_my_gallery.php?source=ppsl&instanceid=134624020

Video I Made For My Final Project

After learning about the different types of clouds, my students created them by using cotton balls. We got a little sticky, but had lots of fun labeling and constructing the clouds.

Here is the link to my video.

http://www.rockyou.com/show_my_gallery.php?source=ppsl&instanceid=134622275