PLE #4

I watched

Lizzy-Mr. Wig, Our Guinea Pig

Angela-Who Am I? ABCs

Kaylee-The One Thing I Won't Eat

Kate-The Scarlet Pimpernel

Robin-The Marvelous Homework and Housework Machine

Alli-Let Me Out of the Classroom

I thought all of these movies were really good. It was cool to see how they used different effects in their movies. Mine was pretty basic, and I didn't really explore too many of the effects options.

I think that this would be a pretty tricky thing to do with elementary students. It was pretty time consuming for me to do, so I would imagine it would be pretty hard to do with the students as well. I can't really think of a time when teachers would have enough time to be able to do a project like this. It seems like teachers have a hard enough time fitting in all of the curriculum. But I guess really ambitious teachers could do this. And they could have students participate by making illustrations for the movie, like in the example movie we watched for our voicethread. So I guess it's doable, just pretty hard and time consuming.

A Tasty Alphabet

Storyboard

Here is my storyboard for my alphabet movie.

PLE #3

TPACK is basically knowing the content of what you are teaching, as well as having knowledge of how to teach it to children, and then combining all of that with technology. So knowing how to use technology to enhance your content and pedagogical knowledge. I think it's especially useful for teachers to have this knowledge now since students know so much about technology. It really enhances their learning, and can make learning more fun for them. It can also challenge the students more because you can do more things with technology.

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PLE #2

This week's assignment was really hard, but I think one of the most useful things that I learned from it was just that I can do a lot more with technology than I thought I could. I like the idea of making a class website, but it is very time consuming to do. I think knowing how to embed things like videos is really useful. It's good to post those on a website because parents can watch the videos with the students. It's especially useful for those students who are ahead in class, and can do some extra things like watch videos or go to websites.

PLE # 1

I have a pretty basic experience with technology. I've taken a few technology classes, like how to use Excel, and the internet for research, things like that. I can do Powerpoint ok. I'm not super good with technology, but I can get around alright. Basically I'm just kind of slow, but I can do things with technology.