Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Miss Merrill's Class's Week in Review 3/16/09

Here is my podcast! I added text to a couple of my pictures. I used this to add sort of a title to the different sections of my podcast. My students wrote summaries based off of our subjects & we made our week in review so I titled some pics with text like, "Conferences," "Writing," "Math," etc. Making it was totally fine and not too frustrating (recording with students can be maddening at times! :) ) however, navigating around podbean and whatnot was difficult but I figured it out! :) I will embed the video when I can get a code! :)

Thursday, March 26, 2009

My Wonderful Websites

This is one of my webpages that my students use on a daily basis... :)

http://wizard.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=126046&page=1


Here is my QUIA account. My kids LOVE battleship!


http://www.quia.com/profiles/kmerrill28


And finally, my last website is a "Go Green" website. With Earth Day approaching, I do a "Green" writing project and we make an art project out of all recycled materials. SO, knowing how geeky I am about recycling (my whole class totally knows), I build up my class about recycling and we do it all year. So I have them see "How Green You Are" with this checklist:


http://food-home.kaboose.com/go-green-checklist.html

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Oral Presentation iMovie

Here is my iMovie on giving Oral Presentations. This is a tested standard for my 6th graders so I thought this would be a great opportunity to introduce the presentations- especially since I video tape them presenting!! :)




My Podcast Subscription

I subscribed to "Stuff You Should Know." This caught my attention first because my boyfriend is totally into all the shows like, "How It's Made" and "Loggers" or whatever that second one is called where it features a crew cutting down trees and selling the lumber. ANYWAY!, there is some cool stuff on here that would totally be great topics for my class. I am sad I didn't have this before because my class just did a writing project on Friday the 13th and there was a podcast about the "facts" behind the superstition. Anyway, that was my subscription for now... probably more to come! :)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Teacher Tube Pick...

I chose the video, "From an F to an A" to post because it was A) made by kids so it is easy to relate to if I showed this to my students, B) a great idea to use for a struggling student in Math, and C) the acting made me giggle sometimes! :) I liked this video because I can show it to my students and most of all, USE! I like the idea of "World Math Day" and didn't even know such a thing existed until I visited teacher tube. What a great way for studnets to connect to others around the world!?!? It also incorporates technology with the use of a computer for math and my students struggle with motivation for math so this was great! :)

Here is the link...

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=76d0edffb611c68b20fa&page=1&viewtype=&category=

Sunday, March 15, 2009