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F2F Instructional Strategies

In this discussion forum share what you have learned about face to face instructional strategies. What do you plan to implement into your classroom? What do you already do in your classroom that was covered in the lecture?

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Boutwell on August 12, 2011 at 12:11pm

Cindy,

That is amazing that you could create book talks through Google Sites. I would love to do something like that but teaching first grade, I find that my students are extremely limited in their technology skills. I work very hard with my students to help them to post to a classroom blog and comment on other student's work, but I love this idea! They can even access the book talks at home if they want to continue their discussion. Thank you for sharing!

Permalink Reply by Sandra Joan Toth on February 25, 2012 at 9:20pm

I am also truly amazed to learn about book talks. I need to look into this.

Permalink Reply by Shannon Forsberg on May 1, 2011 at 2:29pm

It is so encouraging for me as a High School teacher that you are using these technologies and F2F strategies in the FOURTH GRADE! That is so amazing to me. This gives me such a sense of hope for my future students to have experience with these technologies. Great job!

Permalink Reply by Eric March on August 11, 2011 at 10:04pm

That sounds like a great lesson! I like that students not only have the chance to record their own thoughts, but that there is a creative/visual component as well. This is a nice way to incorporate multiple learning styles into the classroom. I haven't experimented much with VoiceThread, but it sounds like a technology I should look into as I prepare for the upcoming school year.

Permalink Reply by Sara Perrin on March 1, 2012 at 7:07pm

I really love this idea! I bet your fourth graders are so excited to read their books and record their commentary. It is so hard sometimes to get kids excited about reading at this age. This is a great way to incorporate literature and technology, as well as communication skills. It would be great to connect with other classes this way, so students get many ideas for books that might like to read. Also, it wuld be great as an introduction activity at the start of the year for your new 4th grade students to view some of those projects so they can get some ideas for great books to read throughout the year. Thanks for sharing this wonderful idea. :)

Permalink Reply by Lauren Wasiloff on March 4, 2012 at 3:38pm

I have also enjoyed using Voice Thread, but would like to incorporate it more. I love the idea of using Voice Thread for a book talk! I think it would make it an interactive and meaningful discussion by sharing with another fourth grade class...kind of like the new version of pen pals!

Permalink Reply by Emily Mullins on December 10, 2012 at 10:21am

Thank you so much for the ideas and for the information as to what VoiceThread entails. As an English teacher, I believe for some of my 9th grade honors students this would be extremely beneficial in extending their discussions and furthering their understanding.

Permalink Reply by Michelle Fairley on December 12, 2010 at 7:51pm

I so often feel as if I am in the middle; I don’t want to just lecture, but feel overwhelmed when introducing a new technology to students. I am very luck that I have a SMART Board, Document Camera, and a mobile lab, in my classroom. Many days I just have jazzed up lectures that include videos from You Tube, Teacher Tube or In-Line Learning, or a short activity that allows the students to come and move things on the SMART Board, but to me this is still not allowing for enough technology time.
Since I have started my classes I have introduced new Cloud Programs to my classes, but often run into road blocks due to the filters on our system, and because our students do not have email addresses. I would really like to incorporate some activities where students from different classes are collaborating on one project, but I have not been able to do this because of the lack of email addresses. I think that my main goal for the rest of this year is to get with our technology department and persuade them to assign email addresses to students. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Permalink Reply by Alison E. Watt on December 12, 2010 at 8:12pm

What about gmail?

Permalink Reply by Michelle Fairley on December 12, 2010 at 9:18pm

I don't think that we can even accesses it through our student firewalls, but it something that I can check on. Thanks

Permalink Reply by Michelle Fairley on December 12, 2010 at 9:16pm

I did not mean In-Line Learning I ment to say United Streaming through Discovery Education.

Permalink Reply by Joshua Vander Meulen on December 15, 2010 at 8:11pm

I am glad that you implement these tools in your classroom because I know this is not the case in every school. I feel schools often commit a lot of money to technological tools, but rarely train their educators how to use them. This seems to be one of the biggest understanding in technology education. Tools do not equal growth simply because they are present. More time should be spent on how to use tools rather than throwing tools to the blind. Clearly, time is the biggest issue in this case; it is valuable to all teachers. Yet, I know for sure that if you gave all the necessary parts to build a car, I would not even know where to begin.