I am continuing to make progress toward reaching my goals in my GAME Plan. My first goal is dealing with using technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning through creative and innovative environments. I have contacted the district Discovery Education gentleman and he has told me about using different tutorials located on the Discovery Education website. I have looked into a few of these and they seem to be very helpful. I have also shown my students a video to help enhance their learning off the Discovery Education website. As I progress though this goal, I have learned that using technology can have its downfalls. As I was trying to download a video, it did not have sound. I was able to fix this problem by downloading it in QuickTime player.
As for my second goal, we have one week of fluency checks done. The way we were able to test fluency with Photo Booth was by allowing students to practice a few times and then take their hot reading test. It was fun to go through the final recordings with each student and pause and go back to different parts to discuss errors or phrasing miscues. I feel with continuing to work with students by using Photo Booth and the conference time, my students’ fluency will increase.
Sometimes the audio codecs are different for each tool you use. I found that the popular "Flip" video cameras had their own codec that needed to be downloaded and installed in order to use the video from the camera. This created confusion for the teachers that used the cameras for class projects. It can be frustrating at times.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of using Photo Booth for fluency. I am going to try it this week in my classroom. I have used a recording center but never thought of using photo booth. Great idea! Thanks.
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