Multimedia Texts
From RE 5532: Technology-Supported Literacy
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Links to Multimedia Texts We Created
Here's a link to various books I created in Tar Heel Reader for students with disabilities or for workshops on teaching such students. My pen name is Reed A. Booke.--Koppenhaverd 05:17, 23 October 2009 (UTC)http://animoto.com/play/6QkRelCCBV5C2h8xF6WekQ?
I created a book about nocturnal animals for my first grade classroom using animoto and the circle graph we have been using to gather information about nocturnal animals. I was so pleased with the way it turned out. This will be a great program for my students to make a quick and easy book. I usually use windows movie maker with my classroom. Check out my video [1] I also love to use photo story and have made math stories to go along with lessons. it is fun to use your own students in the story for some reason the math takes on a whole new level of excitment. Students begin to have their own ideas about how they can direct a math movie.--Candy Mooney 21:47, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I created a photo story with pictures I took of my second grade class during fall center. I downloaded it onto a wiki page that I created. Click on Photo Story-Fall Centers in order to see it. 00:22, 28 October 2009 (UTC)--Patricia Edwards 00:26, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
For a literacy and technology class that I took for my undergraduate degree, I created an iMovie. Our assignment was to choose a childrens book and create a movie from the book. I did the recording and we edited the movie together. I used Media Fire to share this movie. [2] --JenLawson070 16:57, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Over the summer I created a multimedia file for 5130 class. The presentation was about my grandmother to represent how much she means to me. I used pictures of she and I and included text as well as a song in the background. [3] --Tonna216 00:11, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
First grade is going to start studying hibernation. I was playing around with animato this morning. This is what I came up with. Not too bad for a first try! I think this would be a great tool for students to use. It was farely simple and easy to use. I think it would be an excellent way for them to show their understanding of new vocabulary. Because it only allows you to input a few characters, it wouldn't be easy to use for teaching new concepts. --Sefeinman 15:20, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
In Tar Heel reader, I have created two books. These are for my low students. They are still working on letter sounds and basic word knowledge. I have shown them these books. The first time I had them listen to the reader. Then I had them try to read it on their own. My ESL student learned a few new english words! He asked me if "turkey" was the animal. He didn't realize what we eat is actually an animal. Turkey Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumkins--Sefeinman 15:42, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
I was apprehensive to work with a multimedia text because I have never done it before. I downloaded Photo Story. I played around with it to learn enough about it that I would be able to help my kids with it. I love it! I made a story about my travels. --Ressler14 16:59, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
I tried to use Animoto to create a multi-media text however, I was not pleased with the service. With the free subscription it would only allow me to create a 30 second video. So I opted to usePhotostory. I was very pleased with the outcome of my Photostory creation. I created two multimedia texts for my kindergarten class. The first video uses pictures of each child with their written name. I recorded myself reading the names aloud. I placed this mulit-media activity at one of our computer centers for the kids to practice saying each other’s names. I will not upload this video since it includes the names and photos of my students. The kids enjoyed using this activity during centers on Wednesday. I will also use it next week. We were out of school Thursday and Friday so this project was a bit rushed for me. I will use the second Photostory video in my computer center next week. The second video that I created uses clip art and my voice to tell the students about the months of the year. My students will soon be assessed on this knowledge and they ALL need some extra practice with it. I uploaded this video to MediaFire so I could share it with you all. I also plan to share this with the other kindergarten teacher in my school. I know our students will enjoy using this multi-media text next week.My Photostory Creation--Brandy 19:50, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
I love to use Animoto! We use it all the time in my classroom. At the end of last school year all of the new teachers had to share their first year of teaching with all of the other first year teachers in the county. So as a group at my school us 5 decided that we would make an animoto video. We had alot of fun with this and the video told about our school and then each of us had a section in it. This is our Picture Perfect year video. I have made many videos since then with windows movie maker as well which is an awesome tool to use! I used movie maker to create a video for my class at the end of the year of our school year last year.--Hetilley 13:36, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
I used Animoto to make a video of Halloween pictures I took of the children and used the music from Thriller. [4] I liked Animoto but wished that it would allow you to upload more for free. I plan to show the students the video on Monday and have them write about their favorite part of Halloween. I have not used PhotoStory before but I have seen products that other people have created in my other classes. I like PhotoStory and think it would be a better program for making longer presentations. I used a Windows photo program to make a slide show of pictures for each parent at the end of last year but I lost it when my computer crashed. In first grade, our big field trip is to the zoo, I think it would be a great Idea to use one of these programs to make a slide show of pictures of animals with facts about each animal. --Ashleycaldwell82 19:45, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
My first graders illustrated the poem 5 Little Pumpkins using the Kidpix program in the computer lab. We were going to create a slide show on the Slidewebsite. I worked all week to get the county to take off the block to this site. Finally, instead of my students making the slide show on line, I put it together myself and will let them watch it Monday. I did put a link to the slide show on my classroom website and twittered my parents letting them know it is there. Visit 5 Little Pumpkins Slide Showto watch our project. --Melissa graham 12:54, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I have a 3rd grader that is my lunch buddy. Kevin was in my class 2 years ago and is severly dyslexic. We read books together on Tar Heel Reader all the time. We created a book about Late Night with Roy, which I'll put in the section below. I thought I'd surprise Kevin with a slide show using the pictures from the book we created. I can't wait to see him next week. Watch Late Night With Roy show. --Melissa graham 13:02, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I wanted to create a video to use as a demo[[5]] so here it is. This is a personal video to show for fun. Little did I know it would be blocked when I just went to school to give it a dry run. I get so frustrated with my county sometimes. The plan was to show one, model one and then let them do some project based learning. It sounds good on paper, right?--Carol Sherrill 21:46, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I decided to try Slide to see if I liked it better than Animoto. I can't say that I liked it better but I found that it was easier to use. I made a slide show with pictures of the children carving the pumpkin. [6] I am going to link both of slide shows to my teacher webpage so the parents can view them. I like both programs and would use them again. --Ashleycaldwell82 22:05, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I became much more frustrated with animoto than I was expecting, but I stuck with it and created my 30 second video. It took much longer than I anticipated. For the past two years we have created an integrated unit around the Pine Wood Derby races that the Cub Scouts do, but we of course put a middle school twist on it. Our final activity to reward the students for all their hard work is to take them to the NASCAR Speedpark in Concord, NC. --Melissa Martin Whitfield 22:12, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I let my students use digital cameras to take photographs of each other after our Halloween parade at school. They enjoyed using digital cameras. We are going to make a classroom photo story using the digital photographs next week. (Wednesday was our last day of school for the week because we had parent teacher conferences Thursday and Friday.) I'm really excited about Media Fire [7]because now I can share their photo story much easier with fellow teachers and my students' parents. :) --JenLawson070 22:23, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
At some point during the year we stop to focus on North Carolina history, and of course the Outer Banks is a big part of that! I created a Slide Show showing pictures from some of my visits to the Outer Banks. I added captions to explain what the picture was of. Once my class gets back from Washington, I plan to use the pictures we have taken to create another Slide Show to share with the fourth graders!--Adover 00:11, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I really liked playing around with this. I created two multimedia texts. The first was using Animoto. It was a 30 second show of my students using their new technology in class. [[8]] The second video I did of my son on slide. [[9]] I thought this would be a neat concept for my students to do. Do a slide video of their families. It would be a difficult process for second graders, but I think it would be worthwile or we could do a class video of our class family.--Oscales 00:34, 2 November 2009 (UTC)--Oscales 00:42, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Is it okay that I needed to not be a teacher for a minute? I just used animoto and it's AWESOME! I need to look into the cost to upgrade, because it's a little on the short side. I tried to put a link here, but am not being successful. So...I tweeted it. I think this could be a great tool to use as a promo, for students to do quick book reviews, blurbs to advertise yearbooks, etc. I feel an addiction coming on.
I've used PhotoStory extensively, both for ASU classes and in my own classroom. I've signed up for a voicethread account, too. I want to start working with some of my Honors kids to have them help me create digital books for ELL students. This is a way to build in repeated readings (for higher level kids), differentiate (for struggling readers), and pull in tech. WHOO HOO! I was tired & sad (life does that sometimes) until I heard good loud music flashing with my pictures. Yay for the encouragement. --Rjohnson 01:04, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I've created a practice show using Slide of my travels. It was an interesting experience; however, I wish I could incorporate video files as well. You can view it here. --Brittanyjguy 03:08, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I am going to let my kids create "Video Definitions." They will take a word and its definition, and turn it into a video using Animoto. Here the one that I did for the word "Communication." I used mostly videos and screen captures of things that my kids have done in class. --Heatherscoe 03:43, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
My first attempt at Photo Storyis not beautiful but practical and I will definately use it. It is a book about solid shapes which I will be introducing to my first graders in a couple of weeks. I liked Photo Story but it would have been a lot easier with real photos instead of clip art! Live and learn. At least now I know what to do with my field trip pictures!--Smithmk1 05:32, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I loved, loved, loved using Animoto with my students. Even though videos must be 30 seconds, the program itself was very easy to use and my kids really enjoyed putting together a video on Cause and Effect. I used pictures from Taskstream which I used in college to give students examples of pictures to take. Students came up with a Cause and its effect and took their own pictures (with my assistance). It only took about 30 minutes in the computer lab in groups of 2 or 3 to complete a great slideshow that the kids really enjoyed watching.--Burchamal 21:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I created a photostory of my own life to share in RE5130.Check it out! I used freedrive.com to share it. Easy to use, but photostory wouldn't play. Never tried to fileshare before so next I tried mediafire.com because so many others had success. It was also very user friendly to share, and most importantly it worked. So now photo story.wmv check it out!I also just wanted to try Animoto out to create something to discuss types of appeals with my class for our problem-solution writing assignment on environmental concerns. One of their assignments will be to watch commercials so I figured why not create my own. It called the choice. It also had a nice one click to link to Facebook and Twitter. So I shared it on Twitter. --Amy Hardister 23:16, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
This is the first time I have used Animoto and I LOVE IT! I think I will check into the subscription since the free version is only 30 seconds. I have created a couple of personal videos of my children to play with the program. This is one of my videos [10]. Today we had the REMAX hot air balloon come to visit our science class and took lots of pictures that I am hoping to upload into a video and hopefully paste onto my website. Right now I am only able to post links not actual video. Will post link or video when complete.--Cajones51 00:34, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I had never used Animoto before. What a fun experience! I created a video of pictures from my class's trip to the farm. My kids had such a great time and they love to see pictures of themselves. They loved seeing this video and wanted to show it to their parents! Baa Moo Farm Video--Jessicajackson52 03:35, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I tried to post this last night, but for some reason my computer quit working with our wiki...Anyway, I created a video on Animoto based on my class's trip to Hanging Rock State Park last year. The field trip is broken into several stations, and I wanted students to get an idea of what to expect from this. Visit my Twitter account to view it. --Stacy Cabeen 18:06, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I experimented with windows movie maker, it is short but the kids think it is great because some of them were in it. Stuck again, I will have to wait until tomorrow to learn how to upload my video. Here is a short on how to care for your garden. I was surprised how easy it was to use teachertube. Grandmacunningham]] 14:25, 11 November 2009
Have used animoto twice this week (since last posting). Once to introduce Tier 2 vocabulary words and the 2nd to have students create book commercials for upcoming literature circles. Here's a link to the PhotoStory I created for Dr. Pesko's class over the summer. --Rjohnson 18:26, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Someone has walked off with my digital camera with our pictures, not the first thing that has walked away, but the most expensive. I thought I had downloaded them but of course I didn't. I will borrow a school camera now and start over. I will have the students choose which pictures to include and prepare a[ http://www.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=143861&title=field_trip_at_home video]Insert non-formatted text here with music to show how we use technology in our class.--Grandmacunningham 21:32, 17 November 2009 (UTC)--Grandmacunningham 17:00, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Links to Multimedia Texts Our Students Created
I used voice threading with my students this week. Over the past few weeks we have been writing a lot about fall topics such as pumpkins and what do they like to do when it is fall outside. For the voice thread I chose a fall scene and titled it Autumn Activities and had the students write 1-2 sentences with describing words about what they like to do in the fall. I also had the students draw a portrait of themselves and used this for their identity.--Patricia Edwards 22:23, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
My students have been reading a poem a poem called Five Little Pumpkins. If you have worked in the primary grades, you are familiar with it! It is a teacher favorite! As a way to integrate technology, I had the students help me with a Photo Story. I took pictures of their art work and had them type and record a line of the poem. We pieced everything together to make this cute video! Five Little Pumpkins--Sefeinman 15:14, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
This project was a little rushed because the kids were out of school on Thursday and Friday. My 2nd graders went on a field trip to the fire department earlier. We took lots of pictures while there. They picked which photos to use in the photo story and wrote the words to go on most of the pictures. They also added music. I was a little afraid of how this would go, but I have a few tech savvy kids who took over quickly. I would also like to try this with their own stories. They could take pictures of a few things for the visual part, then they could record themselves reading the text that they put on each picture. I also want to so the Star Student each week on here. If they don't have digital pictures they could bring them in ahead of time and I could bring them home, scan them in, e-mail to myself so that they could use them in photo story. I have also always wanted to make a DVD of pictures from the year to give to each child. I have not yet done this. This would be an easy way to do it. They could also record themselves reading something. Wouldn't moms just love that!--Ressler14 18:56, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
After visiting wordaheadandbrainyflix I decided to have my students create vocabulary videos this week. I checked out a Flip camera from the media center and they took video of each other acting out the vocabulary words. We downloaded them to MovieMaker an wrote the vocab word over the top of their video. They loved this activity more than our traditional test review games.[11] --jennifer wagoner 01:55, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
One of my favorite students of all time is Kevin. He is in 3rd grade and has major difficulties in reading. I eat lunch with him once a week and spend 30 minutes on Thursdays reading. We spend a lot of Thursdays reading Tar Heel Reader stories. As Kevin will tell you, these books are not boring, baby books. He was pretty excited when I told him we were going to make another book together. (We worked together on Fast, Faster, Fastest and Look, Momlast year.) He chose which pictures to use and decided on each sentence for them. We started creating the book online but ran out of time. I finished the book It's Time for Tar Heel Basketballthis weekend. I'll catch up with Kevin Monday morning and share his book about Late Night with Roy. I can't wait. --Melissa graham 13:17, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I fell in love with PhotoStory last year & used it with my seventh grade students as an alternative "research paper" idea. They had to research a specific topic related to the Harlem Renaissance and complete a PhotoStory project as their final grade. They loved the technological portion of the process and loathed the research (because I actually made them do research & not just cut & paste.) Want to check out a couple of examples?
I have not used the other formats that we are supposed to check out this week. I only had kiddies for 3 days and 2+ of those 3 were testing days! So, that means I have no authentic feedback from this year...yet. I'll be sure to check out the formats & try them out 2nd quarter. I can already see possibilities of using them as parts of debates during argumentative writing instruction or as spin off projects from our literature circles that are starting soon. --Rjohnson 22:18, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
During our commercial advertising unit, my students created and edited their own commercials. Once they filmed their group's commercials, they edited them in MovieMaker. This is a link to one group's project that I posted on TeacherTube. --Heatherscoe 23:35, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
My students also created their own Wikispace pages. For their "biography" section, they could use PowerPoint/Slideshare or Slide. This is an example of a student who chose to use Slide. --Heatherscoe 02:25, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I had students create a GREAT DEBATE. We learned about the political process. They chose an issue relating to requirements for physical education. They applied for and campaigned for positions. Then, they created scripts and debated issues. After this, they created a Google Video using MovieMaker, with my help in narration, of their experience to share with others. We posted this on Google Videos. You can check it out here. --Brittanyjguy 02:50, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Halloween. Today my students came into the classroom talking nonstop about what they were for Halloween. I took their excitment and channeled it into making an online book. I sat the students around the smart board and showed them how to look for pictures and type in Tar Heel Reader. They enjoyed listening to the book read by the three different voices. It only took about 10 minutes out of the day to complete it. I hope to use it more often!--Sefeinman 20:34, 2 November 2009 (UTC
During our SSR time I am hving my students create their own books using Animoto. They are uploading pictures provided by the site and adding their own text and then uploading music from the site as well. Due to EOQ testing and the short week as well as only 3 computers in the classroom, it is taking a little longer than I expected, but the kids are having a BLAST! Here is one of the first completed ones. [12]--Cajones51 00:27, 3 November 2009 (UTC)--Cajones51 00:36, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I have not had an opportunity to work with my students on any of the online because of a field trip to DC the 21-23 and end-of-quarter assessments and other necessities this past week. I am planning on using Photostory based on my experience trying to use Animoto and the statements of others in our class. I want to make sure I use the most easily accessible program possible because I want my students to be independent with this fairly quickly so we can use it to make small group videos. I would also like to create some videos for my future classes by my current class. I think it would also be fun to make videos for the younger children at our school, and I bet we will take over the end of year slide show and save our Media Coordinator some trouble!--Stacy Cabeen 02:55, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
My students joined with an 8th grade class who was studying ghosts. We worked together to create podcasts demonstrating our interviewing skills. The students were able to modify the visual effects to show ghostly auras. This was not my original plan, but I think things turned out better than expected. The students enjoyed downloading their podcasts to their ipods to share with their friends and families. [[http://www.filefactory.com/?
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We are starting over, "lost" camera, to make a video of what we are thankful for, idea from a book on tarheelreader I saw one of my students reading. I am sure it will be easy to make, my problem is after I upload to teachertube and zshare I can't download to our wikki.--Grandmacunningham 17:33, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Ways We Used Multimedia Texts in Our Classrooms
Did you know you can add captions to videos you upload to YouTube? Here's a video demo. One of the easier ways to do so is with Caption Tube. And that many other folks have captioned some of their videos there. These are natural multimedia texts of high interest to many students. My colleagues and I have used them to develop background knowledge and vocabulary understanding and to increase motivation for guided reading lessons.--Koppenhaverd 05:17, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
I have used different multimedia sources with my students but the one assignment I enjoyed the most was I let them create a timeline of their own lives. I had my students bring in pictures of their lives from when they were born until now and each of my students created their own animoto video of their life. They had to add text to their pictures and they had to have them sequenced in the correct order. This was a great way to help my students practice sequencing and using a timeline. All they did was bring their timeling to life!!!! Each student got to share their stories in their small groups during reading time. My students were also able to take their videos home to share with their parents. I have also let my students create their own books to share with another class. However, the shcool just had to transfer all of my files to a CD and when I insert the CD my files are not there so I am trying to find my files to share. I will link them if I find them. I also let my students have the choice of using TarHeel Reader during Silent Reading Time and most of my below grade level readers use tarheel reader daily! --Hetilley 14:07, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
We are going on a field trip next week to a farm. I am going to take pictures and let the children use Animoto to make a video of the trip. This week was a short week and I did not have time to do anything with the children this week. I think they will like it and it will not be hard for them to use. --Ashleycaldwell82 20:15, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
We are also going on a field trip next week, to Washington, D.C. I will be taking pictures throughout the whole trip and when we return my class is going to create a Photostory presentation about our trip to share with classmates who couldn't attend, and also to show to the fourth grade students so that they know what they have to look forward to next year! --Adover 16:18, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
First graders at my school will be learning about owls in the next two weeks. One of the teachers ask me if I still had the webquest thingy (her words) from last year. Luckily, I do. They can read all about owls and do fun activities (they can even listen to owls at theGuess Whooo? site. You can check out the site to create your own webquest at Quest Garden. I thought it was much easier to use than the WebQuest site.--Melissa graham 13:41, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunatly, the past two weeks have been crazy at our school with fieldtrips, guest speakers, shortened classes and other happenings. I had also already planned, created, and made copies for the students to do an Australian Animal project. They did all the research on the computer and then they created a boomerang showing the information. The front was an illustration of the animal or symbols that represented the animal along with Aboriginie artwok and on the back they wrote their research. Since I had already described the project to them, I did not want change plans, however my wheels have been turning, and the students enjoyed this project so much, that I have decided to do an aminal project with them for each continent. The next continent will be Asia. I will begin to explore more of what the technology has to offer and have the students create either a mutimedia presentation with the information they find on each Asian animal or a book. As they create their final product, I can take photos and video of them at work to post onto our class website. --Melissa Martin Whitfield 20:19, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I had a really good plan to use [[13]] to create mini autobiographies as we begin our unit on non-fiction. That has backfired on me due to slide.com being blocked to me and my students. Now, I will drop back and punt as I beg for ideas on our threaded discussion.--Carol Sherrill 21:54, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Sometimes you can talk with your media coordinator and they can get the site unblocked for you if you explain how you will be using it. I know that doesn't really help if you want to do this project soon. I have ran in to this happening a lot at my school as well. It seems that so many educational resources are blocked. My brother bought software that was similar to slide.com but I will talk with him and see if I can find a free source for you. --JenLawson070 22:39, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
We use multimedia texts in a number of ways in our classroom. One project that my kids do is to create their own Wikispace page that represents them. I give them a few parameters and requirements, but they have a lot of freedom with them. One form of a multimedia text that we do in this project is convert PowerPoint projects into interactive slideshow widgets using Slideshare. The kids love this! They even use the embedding code to place them on their myspace pages. I have also made webquests that incorporate sites that use multimedia texts. When studying Ancient Civilizations, the British Museum website has some really good interactive features for students. Here is their website on Ancient Egypt. --Heatherscoe 23:21, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I had my fifth graders work with first graders using the Tarheel Readers website. They turned off the sound and read aloud to the little ones, helping them to take print as they went along. The first graders even interjected when they came to words they knew. I plan to continue to partner with the lower grades teachers to give my older kids a way to help contribute to the learning process of the younger kids. --Adover 00:29, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I am going to show the students the video I created of my son. Then like I stated before I think it would be cool if we could create a class one and allow everyone to write a caption for a picture. The possibilites are endless. --Oscales 00:39, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I spoke about this a bit up top. I'm planning to use electronic texts as a modification tool for ELL students. My hope is that all students will eventually be making electronic texts as alternate discussion and report formats. For now, I'm going to have our Enrichment Class (a once weekly small group of 15 kids) begin making a voicethread or PhotoStory of La Linea, the book we are about to start with 3, 4, and 5th periods. We started SIOP training on Friday and our trainer spoke to the importance of including assistive helps like words in color & pictures to go with text. I just found encouragmenet in an unlikely spot. Yay for homework on Sunday nights :-) --Rjohnson 01:13, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I know this is not a unique experience, but I used stories from Tarheel Reader with a some of my students last week during SSR. I used it with some of my lowest readers who also happen to be ELL. They really enjoyed it. Soem of my students are using AR during that time, so this was one way for my lower students to be on the computer during this time and have others want to do what they were doing. It made them happy!--Smithmk1 01:51, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I have used multimedia texts in a number of ways in my own classroom. We often take pictures of and video short presentations then piece them together to cover a science concept. Later, we can make our own recordings on mp3 players and add them to the videos. Finally, at the end of a unit in science, we can watch the videos we have made for review. --Brittanyjguy 02:28, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Also, while teaching the phases of the moon, I allowed each group to take pictures and video of themselves with posters and actions to create their own clip. Then, I pieced these together to create all of the phases of the moon in order. Then, we used this on our classroom website to teach phases of the moon. I plan to do this again this year! --Brittanyjguy 02:28, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I have had my ESL students use tarheel readerto help them hear words. ALthough the use a program called Successmaker to help with their fluency. The past few weeks as they have read along with the computer. This provides something different. I would like to have my ESL students work to write their own book and read it on this site. I think that would be a huge accomplishment for them to hear something they wrote read aloud. Also I plan to have my students to create their own photostories to teach each other about a country of Africa in my social studies class.--Amy Hardister 22:18, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
My students are reading a book called Skeleton Creek: The Ghost in the Machine. This story has pieces online that go with the plot. The website is SarahFincher.com. The videos are done to look like they are uploaded by one of the characters in the book. I know this isn't multimedia the way most people have been talking about it on here, but I feel this is a wonderful weaving of the internet and a real "text" book. My students are all excited about the book because of the suspense the videos add, and I think it will help encourage them when we work on our own videos. I wish I had more time with my students over the past week, but we have been so busy that we have not been able to work on creating texts of our own yet. --Stacy Cabeen 02:40, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
My first grade students helped me use Slide to write a simple book for the kindergartners in my class to read on the computer during SSR time. We will work on making more of these books. We are trying to design them to focus on many of the high frequency words that kindergarten students must learn. I really enjoyed using slide as well! Check out our book: Zoo Animals --Jessicajackson52 04:25, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
After seeing how cute Animoto can turn out, I decided to try it out. I used the same pictures I used for my Fall Centers Photostory. Then I embedded it into my class wiki. On Monday I am checking out the laptop cart and I'm going to have the students post a blog about the fall centers after they watch the animoto video. I can't wait to see their reactions. They get very excited any time we use technology.--Patricia Edwards 02:23, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
My struggling readers use tarheel reader during SSR. I want my ELL students to help translate our captions from our videos so when our parents come in for our Thanksgiving meal they can share so everyone can see how far their child has come with the technology in our class.--Grandmacunningham 17:21, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Online Collections of Multimedia Texts
The Internet Public Library is a fabulous resource for online books and magazines and other resources for students of all ages.--Koppenhaverd 05:17, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Our class uses Garfield captions to allow the students to compose their own text to tell a story My 3rd grade students had to research an animal, and follow me while I was in Belize with the NC Museum of Natural Science. Four years ago I thought this was high tech, now I know better. We did compose a presentation for sponsors using links from daily messages as well as pictures. They had to decide if their research was valid in the face of the real thing. The text was electronic with only one or two side trips, nothing confusing. --Grandmacunningham 21:12, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm really excited to learn about Tar Heel Reader [14]reader. I had never heard of this site until this class. Reading a-z [15]also has some great online collections of multimedia texts. I like pulling these up on the smart board and sharing these with the class. The texts are also leveled and there are lots and lots of books. These can also be printed off so students can have a copy to use or take home. The only downside is that I think you have to purchase a subscription.
Teachertube has a ton of user created multimedia texts. I use them all the time in class to demonstrate how new technologies work. This is one example of a video that breaks down how a wiki works in very simple terms. --Heatherscoe 23:02, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
StorylineLine Online is a website with many different books that are read aloud by celebrities. You can turn captions on or off during the reading. I used it frequently with my first graders and they LOVED it! --Adover 00:21, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
This is actually a pageflake with lists of Voicethread projects. Almost every subject and every grade is listed. This would be a great place to look first for ideas for Voicethread. Voicethread projects--Sefeinman 20:29, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
The Museum of Natural Sciences has a great website that allows you to travel with teachers on field trips. Of course there are also many other venues on their site for the students to share in.--Grandmacunningham 14:38, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Other Multimedia Tools, Websites, Information Resources
Here is a site that has books with audio. I hope I'm not repeating info already shared! http://www.sylvandellpublishing.com/mp3s/AudioBookPlayer.htm--Smithmk1 00:43, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
I've started playing around with toondooand go animate. Both are sites where you can upload your own photos and create comics, either still or motion. You can also use what is already on the site. Hopefully I can have one of my classes make something this week with one of these sites. They seem really cool and easy to use. --jennifer wagoner 23:41, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Another multimedia text software I love to use is Movie Maker. This is a link to where if your computer does not already have it you can download it for free. Movie Maker is very similar to Animoto and I would rather use Movie Maker over Animoto. Movie Maker lets you add as many of your own songs as possible and also add text to your pictures as well.--Hetilley 13:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Here is a link to 30,000 online books. Our media center has linked it to our school's website for our students to access. Of course the students can find the classics, but new books can also be found there; such as Jeff Kinney's series, A Diary of a Wimpy Kid. --Melissa Martin Whitfield 20:58, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Here is a link to creating iMovies with a Mac [16]. Both of our computer labs are Macs.--Carol Sherrill 21:59, 1 November 2009 (UTC) I found some info to help us with copywright laws. [[17]]--Carol Sherrill 22:03, 1 November 2009 (UT
Scribble Maps are a fun way to learn geography. You could map the journey of Lewis and Clark or mark where you went on your summer vacation. Maps can be saved, sent to friends or posted on Twitter.--Burchamal 21:14, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I had fun on sharing with other teachers on zshare.net. A good place to save your videos that take up a lot of space. My example for expectations of research and implementation.--Grandmacunningham 14:25, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
