Alacia+Herring

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Alacia Herring's Lesson Plan Presentation

Alacia, I am SO impressed that your kindergarten students were able to complete this project! I am sure they enjoyed the opportunity to be able to select their method of creating their product. I may have missed this, but did each student create their own Glogster or Slideshare or is that where the different group colors came in to play? I think the idea of color-coding groups is great. I have not had my kindergarten students complete differentiated activities in my technology classroom. I feel your method of grouping would work well for me. I also liked the community service tie-in that allowed your students to complete community service through the can drive. What a great opportunity for sharing with others. The inclusion of your lesson on wants vs. needs was also appropriate, especially with Christmas just around the corner. The journals created by your students were adorable. If I were you, I would consider posting pictures of these on my blog or wiki. I am sure parents and grandparents would love to see these as well.

I would never have thought to use MovieMaker as a method of converting PowerPoint with audio into a sharable format. It is very frustrating when students have worked diligently to produce outstanding projects only to run into roadblocks. I think you had an excellent solution. You may also want to consider using [|Animoto]. I used this last year with PowerPoint. You turn each slide into a jpeg, and then you could re-record student voices. Another option would be to use [|LittleBirdTales.]This is a great site to use when creating presentations with student audio. You again would have to save each PowerPoint slide as a jpeg, but it might be helpful in the future.

Nice work:) Karen Leonard

Alacia, I love this lesson! I'm sure your students will be talking about this for quite some time. I think the community involvement was a great tie in with the helpers unit. You were able to tie quite a few standards together. The student work was very cute. I wasn't quite clear about how you used Glogster with your students. Did you use Glogster to teach the students about each community helpers? I saw how you used Power Point, Movie Maker and Audacity. It was a great lesson with a great use of technology. It sounds like you learned quite a bit from your lesson and the next technology lesson will be that much easier from what you were able to accomplish from this lesson. Great Job! Sterling Hope