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Web 2.0

One of the Web 2.0 technologies that I have used in the past is goanimate.com. goanimate is very helpful in teaching students about conversation, voice, and quotation marks. In the computer classroom it’s a good intro into storyboarding. After they create a few sceens of people talking they can see where the people are on the screen. They can see how to cut from one person to the other and how to make their clips interesting. After they make their goanimate students could then try to get the same affect by filming people and trying to get the same headroom and distance in their film that worked so easily in goanimate. Edmoto is something that I’ve really been wanting to use with my students. I really want to get the students at our school reading more. There was a study done at U of L by to professors and what I got from the study that it’s not just enough to read the students have to be talking about what they read. If you don’t have a focus for your Edmoto, students will start writing anything and that is when student start writing the wrong stuff and then all educators say, see look what happens when they write in a forum like this. I would like for them to start using Edmoto to write about what they are reading and reflecting on it and telling others about what they read. I think it will take me some practice to ask the right kinds of questions so that the students can write more than I liked the book you should read it too. Just think if I could get them to start writing essential questions from a book that they were reading and students would start answering each others essential questions. Edmoto just might be the avenue for that to happen. 2 things that I can’t do right now on the iPad that I want the students to be able to do in Edmoto is be able to see a video that is posted in the post and for students to be able to change their avatar on the iPad. I contacted the company and they said that those changes are coming. If I can’t do this in Edmoto, Kidblog is similar to Edmoto I might be able to get the same results. I’m so excited about Little bird tales and that it is on the iPad. I have been wanting my students to record their voice with pictures that they have done or with images that they have on the ipad. Little bird tales is going to be able to help us do that. At first I thought keynote was our answer, but keynote doesn’t allow students to record their voice. This looks very simple for students to use. Even with Kindergartners they could add a letter or two a week. They could talk about the letter and what words start with that letter. Older students will be able to explain something in educreate or if they are writing about a picture they could use little bird tales and export it into their Edmoto or Kidblog. This next year really will be my year of student creations!!!